Overview
- Focuses on Terry Pratchett, so far the subject of relatively little scholarly attention
- Gives an overview both of Pratchett's work and of criticism to date, and provides a framework for future research
- Brings together new and established scholars in the field of children's literature
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Populating Discworld and Beyond: Characters, Criticism and Social Commentary
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Crafting Narratives: Literary Techniques and Genre Adaptations
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About this book
This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett's work on fantasy writing and genre conventions.With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters’ situatedness within Pratchett’s novels and what this may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Two discusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modern aspects of Pratchett’s writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions. This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or student interested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular.
Reviews
“This volume ought to inspire more people to take seriously a popular writer who just happens to have mainly written comic fantasy – some of which, yes, is aimed at children, and much of which could be enjoyed by children.” (Andrew M. Butler, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, Vol. 8 (1), 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marion Rana is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, where she is in charge of a project analysing the negotiation of deafness in children’s literature. She is one of the publishers of interjuli, an international journal for research in children’s literature. Her recent publications deal with disability poetry, the commodification of sexuality in dystopian fiction, as well as categories of simplicity and the use of Young Adult literature in the foreign language classroom.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds
Book Subtitle: From Giant Turtles to Small Gods
Editors: Marion Rana
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67298-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67297-7Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88408-0Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67298-4Published: 12 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Children's Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction