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Analysis
This section is for essays, term papers, thesis, or indeed any analytical work, based upon the books and writings of Terry Pratchett.
If you would like to submit a piece for inclusion in this section please contact librarian@lspace.org.
- Statistics
- A statistical analysis of the chapters, paragraphs, words and footnotes in the Discworld stories.
- Newsgroup Discussions
- A separate section containing discussions relating to various Pratchett books and characters
- White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in
Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- By Bill Abbott (East Tennessee State University).
This thesis was written as part of his 'Master of Arts in English'.
- The Literary Evolution of Terry Pratchett
- By David Bapst (Frontier Central High School, of Hamburg, New York).
A paper written for an Advanced Placement Composition course.
- Postmodern Parody In The Discworld Novels Of Terry Pratchett
- By Christopher Bryant (University of Plymouth).
This dissertation was written as part of his English degree.
- Terry Pratchett, the Watch and the Blurring of Genre
- By Simon Dannell (University of Lincoln)
A year three disertation
- An essay on Only You Can Save Mankind
- By Asterios Kechagias
- Subverting the Genre
- By Andreas Kristiansen
A Hovedfag Thesis.
- The Realm of Turtles: Why We Read Novels in the Electronic Age, As Demonstrated By Pratchett's Reaper Man
- By Kevin Ma (University of Alberta).
This was written as supporting evidence for his 'novels in the electronic age' thesis.
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld
- By Kneidinger Marcio (BRG Rohrbach, Austria)
Written for his final exam in English.
- "Necessarily Extended Duration To The Red Army! Regrettable Decease Without Undue Suffering To The Forces Of Oppression!"
- By Cathryn Mason (a Maine High School).
This paper was written as part of an Asian Studies Class.
- English Dialects in Modern
British Fiction — “Ach Crivens”: The Language of
the Wee Free Men (PDF File)
- By Wibke
Sawatzki (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz).
This paper was written for an 'Introduction
into English Linguistics' course.
- Sense Relationships and Semantic
Problems in Literary Translation
- By Anke Schröder (University of
Duisburg)
This paper was written as part of a
pro-seminar "words" (linguistics) during 2001/2.
- Sourcery Essay
- By Vasiliy Slobodov
An
AP Placement Essay Type
D
- The Seven Ages of
Discworld
- By Juliette
Harrisson
Originally published in Issue 82 of the
Discworld Monthly (February 2004)
- Bewitching Writing
- By Dorthe Andersen (Aalborg University)
An investigation of the form and function of intertextuality in the witch-sequence of
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels; Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters,
Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and
Carpe Jugulum.
- Which witch is which?
- By Lorraine Andersson (University of Halmstad)
A feminist analysis of Terry Pratchett's Discworld witches. Thesis for a Masters of Arts in English, June 2006.
- English Dialects in Modern British Fiction
- By Wibke Sawatzki (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
"Ach Crivens": The Language of the Wee Free Men
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- Terry
Pratchett: Guilty of Literature
- Edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward
James, and Farah Mendlesohn.
A collection of essays
on Terry Pratchett and his work. Second, expanded edition
published July 2004 by Old Earth Books.
- Power and Authority in "Guards! Guards!"
- This essay looks at 'Guards! Guards' as a political novel in which the age-old questions of the relationship between Power and Authority, and of that between Pragmatism and the Utopian ideal are raised by Leviathan in person.
- The Sandman Papers
- Edited by Joe Sanders.
This
is a primarily a collection of essays about Neil Gaiman, but it
contains one entry (by Stacie Hanes and Joe Sanders)
called Reinventing the Spiel: Old Stories, New
Approaches that compares Gaiman's usage of the Triple
Goddess (maiden, mother, crone) with that of Pratchett. The
Sandman Papers is available
from Fantagraphic
Press.
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