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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 uppsatser innehållade ordet Discworld.
1. "No good being a witch unless you let people know" : The importance of performance in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In this analysis of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, I argue that performance of the witch is the most important part of witchcraft on Discworld, and, indeed, what drives the story. To underpin this position, I understand Wyrd Sisters as a work of metafiction and parody, examine witch tropes and stories on Discworld and draw parallels to the weird sisters of Shakespeare's Macbeth. LÄS MER
2. Spela en fiddel : En kreativ studie av folklorkaraktärer inom Terry Pratchetts Skivvärld
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : This essay is a creative study of how characters are depicted in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, based on three novels of Pratchett, translated to Swedish: Häxor i Faggorna (1994), Svinvinternatt (2005), and Levande musik (2001). The creative part will be a short story written by me, where I put the well-known character Näcken from Swedish folklore into Pratchett’s imaginary world Discworld. LÄS MER
3. "Let me Deal so Candidly with the Reader": A Study of the Unnatural Spaces and Narrators of Gulliver’s Travels and the Discworld
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaSammanfattning : Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. LÄS MER
4. Comedy Gold : How Humour is Used as Social Criticism in Terry Pratchett’s Making Money
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturSammanfattning : Abstract Pratchett‟s absence from being mentioned in the same breath as great satirists such as Swift, Chaucer or Dryden to mention a few, could be because Pratchett‟s choice of genre is fantasy which is, by many, considered a „lesser‟ genre. One can wonder though in what ways the imagined nations and peoples of the Discworld series differ from some of the encounters made by Gulliver in Swift‟s Gulliver’s Travels. LÄS MER
5. Plocka löss och bestraffa mäktiga trollkarlar. Representationer av bibliotekarier i fantasylitteraturen
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskapSammanfattning : In the field of library and information science there has long been a large amount of discontent with the librarian stereotype, especially with the image of the unattractive old maid whose books are her only comfort in life. In this master’s thesis I argue that this discontent is an expression of the very same patriarchal views that formed the stereotype and also that a stereotype may well be represented in a subversive way or at least have subversive features. LÄS MER
