1st Edition

On Characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels Intertextual, Fantastic, Bewitching

By Kamil B. Karaś Copyright 2027
274 Pages
by Routledge

On Characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels: Intertextual, Fantastic, Bewitching  offers a rich scholarly exploration of one of modern fantasy's most beloved fictional universes. Blending rigorous literary analysis with genuine enthusiasm for Pratchett's work, this book examines how Discworld characters, from witches and wizards to vampires and barbarians, are shaped by intertextual... Read more

Introduction; Part One: Discworld Characters from Intertextual Perspective; Chapter 1: Characters with Historical Hypotexts; Chapter 2: Characters with Literary Hypotexts; Part Two: Discworld Characters from Genre Perspective; Chapter 3: Playing with fantasy; Chapter 4: Genre Mixture; Terry Pratchett's Genre Mixture; Part Three: Discworld Characters from Gender Perspective; Chapter 5: Female Characters; Chapter 6: Male Characters; Men's studies; Chapter 7: The Witches

Biography

Kamil B. Karaś is an independent scholar, a High School teacher and a devoted fan of Terry Pratchett. Having developed a taste for solving literary riddles, he now hunts for intertextual references and Easter Eggs in books, movies and other texts of culture. When he is not teaching or deconstructing texts, he may be found walking his dog in a nearby forest.