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This collection of new essays applies a wide range of critical frameworks to the analysis of prolific fantasy author Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. Essays focus on topics such as Pratchett's treatment of noise and silence and their political implications; art as an anodyne for racial conflict; humor and cognitive debugging; visual semiotics; linguistic stylistics and readers' perspectives of word choice; and Derrida and the "monstrous Regiment of Women." The volume also includes an annotated bibliography of critical sources. The essays provide fresh perspectives on Pratchett's work, which has stealthily redefined both fantasy and humor for modern audiences.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on the Text
The Wee Free Men: Politics and the Art of Noise Roderick McGillis
Coloring in Octarine: Visual Semiotics and Discworld Anne Hiebert Alton
Tell It Slant: Of Gods, Philosophy and Politics in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
The Watchman and the Hippopotamus: Art, Play and Otherness in Thud! delete Caroline Webb
Counting Dangerous Beans: Pratchett, Style and the Utility of Premodified Bits delete deleteWilliam C. Spruiell
Debugging the Mind: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Poetics of Fantasy delete deleteGideon Haberkorn
Primary Bibliography of Terry Pratchett's Works Published in English
Annotated Critical Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
