Discworld and the Disciplines

Anne Hiebert Alton is a professor of English at Central Michigan University, where she teaches literature of all sorts. She lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. William C. Spruiell is an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University, where he teaches English linguistics, Old English, and science-fiction and fantasy literature. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.

“a comprehensive, interesting and challenging collection”—SFRA Review; “this text is firmly rooted in a variety of critical approaches, and each essay demonstrates strong commitment to scholarship and academia...an excellent resource”—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly; “an important addition to Pratchett scholarship and will be of interest to anyone doing critical work on Discworld”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe Wee Free Men: Politics and the Art of Noise Roderick McGillisColoring in Octarine: Visual Semiotics and Discworld Anne Hiebert AltonTell It Slant: Of Gods, Philosophy and Politics in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld  Gray ­Kochhar-LindgrenThe Watchman and the Hippopotamus: Art, Play and Otherness in Thud! delete Caroline WebbCounting Dangerous Beans: Pratchett, Style and the Utility of Premodified Bits delete deleteWilliam C. SpruiellDebugging the Mind: The Rhetoric of Humor and the Poetics of Fantasy delete deleteGideon HaberkornPrimary Bibliography of Terry Pratchett’s Works Published in EnglishAnnotated Critical BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex