Description
Book Synopsis 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.
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 War — Sadie E. Hash
- Appendix: Works and Adaptations
- About the Contributors
- Index
