Overview

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate worldview, and acts of continuous self-examination and creation. This collection of essays uses inventiveness and creation as a thematic core to combine normally disparate themes, such as science fiction studies, the effect of collaborative writing and shared authorship, steampunk aesthetics, productive modes of ""ownership,"" intertextuality, neomedievalism and colonialism, adaptations into other media, linguistics and rhetorics, and coming of age as an act of free will.

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Author:   Kristin Noone ,  Emily Lavin Leveret
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.209kg
ISBN:  

9781476674490

ISBN 10:   1476674493
Pages:   155
Publication Date:   18 August 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents 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 Sadie E. Hash Appendix: Works and Adaptations About the Contributors Index

Reviews

"""An illuminating--and, honestly, just plain fun to read--addition to the growing body of scholarly work on Pratchett's oeuvre...readers will find highly-enjoyable pieces...a delight to read. Its ambitious project and often complex topics are bolstered by contributors' obvious enjoyment of the texts themselves...accessible and exciting, one of those uncommon works of scholarship that I would also pick up on a rare day off just to enjoy seeing rich new perspectives on a favorite fantasy world...well worth a read...those interested in examinations of the fantasy genre...will appreciate the collection's focus...[and] value its thoughtful revisitation of a gentle giant in the genre.""--SFRA Review"

Author Information

Kristin Noone is an English instructor and writing center faculty at Irvine Valley College in Southern California; her research interests include medievalism and adaptation, heterotemporalities, superheroes, fantasy and the fantastic, and popular romance, and she has published on topics from ethics in the work of Terry Pratchett to the symbolism of Dean Winchester’s pie in Supernatural. Emily Lavin Leverett is a professor of English at Methodist University in Fayetteville North Carolina. With her primary focus as Medieval English Romance—tales of adventure, magic, chivalry, faith, and fantasy, she also studies medievalism, the ways that the romances of medieval Britain have made their way into contemporary arts, specifically English author Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

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