Sökning: "Pratchett"

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  1. 1. Det outsägliga spelet av Armageddon : En narratologisk analys av apokalyptiska maktförhållanden i Good Omens av Terry Pratchett och Neil Gaiman

    Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Författare :Alex Grönroos; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Eschatology; Apocalypse; Popular culture; Narratology; Power; Good Omens; Eskatologi; Apokalyps; Populärkultur; Makt; Narratologi; Good Omens;

    Sammanfattning : This paper is used to study the implications that power has in a fictive story about the apocalypse. In the fictional novel, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, there are different positions that express power and by analyzing them different attitudes emerge. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Satans son, miljöförstöring och ansvar : En ekokritisk läsning av Terry Pratchett och Neil Gaimans Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Agnes Lindblad; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Ekokritik; Litteraturvetenskap; Klimatfiktion;

    Sammanfattning : This essay employs an ecocritical reading of the book Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman to analyse its portrayal of pollution and climate change. The essay also focuses on the genre cli-fi to see how the novel fits within it. LÄS MER

  4. 3. "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)

    Författare :Maria Sköld; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Pratchett; Terry Pratchett; Discworld; Wyrd Sisters; performance; performativity; metafiction; parody; fantasy; theatre; Pratchett; Terry Pratchett; Skivvärlden; Häxkonster; roller; performativitet; metafiktion; parodi; fantasy; teater;

    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

  5. 4. Life is shit and then you die : Humor, igenkänning och döden i Terry Pratchetts Mort och Christopher Moores A Dirty Job

    Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Emma Granholm; [2022]
    Nyckelord :humor; death; recognition; Terry Pratchett; Christopher Moore; literature didactic; Mort; A Dirty Job; humor; döden; igenkänning; Terry Pratchett; Christopher Moore; litteraturdidaktik; Mort; A Dirty Job;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay, I am analyzing how recognition occurs through humor in the two novels: Mort, by Terry Pratchett, and A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore. This is with the intention to add more ways of using literature to speak about difficult topics such as death, in the Swedish secondary school. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Spela en fiddel : En kreativ studie av folklorkaraktärer inom Terry Pratchetts Skivvärld

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper

    Författare :Jenny Lindberg Eriksson; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Terry Pratchett; Näcken; folklore; sagor; magisk musik;

    Sammanfattning : 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