[Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 45] • Discworld and the Disciplines · 45 (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Alton, Anne Hiebert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Acknowledgments Introduction

Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell

Pratchett and Interdisciplinarity Overview of the Book Notes Works Cited

A Note on the Text

Abbreviations

The Wee Free Men

Politics and the Art of Noise

Works Cited

Coloring in Octarine

Visual Semiotics and Discworld

Cover Art Decorative Art Illustrated Novels Hypotrochoidal Texts Notes Works Cited

Tell It Slant

Of Gods, Philosophy and Politics in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

Works Cited

The Watchman and the Hippopotamus

Art, Play and Otherness in Thud!

Race, Identity and Conflict The Power of Games Art, Story and Identity Notes Works Cited

Counting Dangerous Beans

Pratchett, Style and the Utility of Premodified Bits

Text, Deviation, Foregrounding, Ostranenie, and Squance Counting Instances

Type Noun Sequences Selected “Speech-Tag Verbs” Selected “Noise Verbs” Vision Verbs with [Up / Down / Around] Vague Bits, Some Premodified

Counting Potentials Counting Humor (an Inconclusion) Notes Appendix A Appendix B Works Cited

Debugging the Mind

The Rhetoric of Humor and the Poetics of Fantasy

Cognition, and the Making of Meaning A Rhetoric of Humor, or Why Did the Goat Cross the Bridge? A Pun, on Any Other Name… Low, Linked and Like: Understatement, Footnote and Simile Just Asking Fantasy, a Modern Tradition Some Boundary Issues The Poetics of Non-Mimetic Realism Fantasy as Theoretical Fiction Debugging the Mind Notes Works Cited

Primary Bibliography of Terry Pratchett’s Works Published in English

With Alan Batley and Bernard Pearson With Bernard Pearson With Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen With Jacqueline Simpson With Neil Gaimon With Paul Kidby With Phil Masters and John M. Ford With Stephen Baxter With Stephen Briggs With the Discworld Emporium

Annotated Critical Bibliography

A. Articles, Chapters and Monographs B. Interviews

2. Interviews with Paul Kidby

C. MA Theses and Dissertations Additional Resources

About the Contributors List of Names and Terms