Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds: Essays on Identity and Narrative in Discworld and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781476674490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 155 str.

Kristin Noone; Emily Lavin Leveret

Opis

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. These essays use inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of collaborative writing, steampunk aesthetics, intertextuality, and neomedievalism and colonialism.

Spis treści

• Introduction: Terry Pratchett's Ethical Worlds — Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett
• Something That Gods Are: Acts of Creation in Terry Pratchett's Early Science Fiction — Kristin Noone
• Conan the Nonagenarian: Beyond Hyborian Hypermasculinity with Terry Pratchett's Cohen the Barbarian — Mike Perschon
• Carrot Ironfoundersson: Medieval Romance, Narrative Causality and the Ethics of Choice in Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! — Emily Lavin Leverett
• Self-Discovery, Free Will and Change: The Ethics of Growing Up in the Fantasy Novels of Terry Pratchett — Kathleen Burt
• The ­Anglo-Saxon Ælf: Old English Influences in Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men and The Shepherd's Crown — Livia Bongiovanni
• Constructing Identity Through Language in Discworld — Elise A. Bell
• Rhetoricity of Discworld: Magic and the Ethics of Footnotes — Amy Lea Clemons
• The Golempunk Manifesto: Ownership of the Means of Production in Pratchett's Discworld — Janet Brennan Croft
• Neomedievalism and the Ethics of Colonization in Pratchett and Baxter's The Long Earth and The Long War — Sadie E. Hash
• Appendix: Works and Adaptations
• About the Contributors
• Index