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The Depiction of Gender in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Mládek, Pavel ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This work concerns itself with the Discworld series of the British fantasy author Terry Pratchett, and with how sex and gender are depicted in it. It mainly looks at the books Feet of Clay (1996), The Fifth Elephant (1999), Monstrous Regiment (2003), and Raising Steam (2013), which deal with these topics the most openly. It attempts to reveal whether the series presents more the view that sex and gender are tightly intertwined, or even that gender does not exist at all, so-called gender critical view, or whether gender and sex are more or less independent of each other and the characters in the series may present a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth. At the same time the work examines whether the depictions of gender evolve as the series go on or not.
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Selected Adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Works in the Czech Theatre
Duchková, Rachel ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
THE ABSTRACT This bachelor thesis deals with the process of adapting Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel into a dramatic text by Stephen Briggs, both in Jan Kantůrek's czech translation. The aproach is a combination of a literary, theatrological and partly dramaturgical, mainly based on literature dealing with the transposition of semantic material between two different semiotic systems. Simultaneously considering the problematics of dramatization as an interdisciplinary phenomenon. The aim of the practical part of the work is to compile a functional methology for comparative analysis, through which it is possible to observe the thematic shift of the dramatization text compared to the pretext. This methology should be based on the aquired knowledge summarized in the theoretical part of the. Final part of work aims to apply this methology to specific works and evaluate the degree of thematic displacement.
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Receptive and intertextual strategies in Terry Pratchett's novel cykle "Discworld"
Cermonová, Klára ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis is focused on The Discworld, book series written by English writer Terry Pratchett. It examines which tools the author is using for achieving such a readability and catchines of his novels. Investigations are done in several layers: characters, word of the story, themes and motives. Intertextuality is the next topic of the work. It is mainly focused on intertextuality regarding the readers. Other interest of this thesis is to clarify position of the Discworld among fantasy pieces as it is usually classified as fantasy. Finally, it shows quality of Pratchett's series and it argues with the statement that his work is popular mainstream literature.
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Quotational compounds in Terry Pratchett's novels
Málková, Kateřina ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Popelíková, Jiřina (referee)
The topic of the present thesis are quotational compounds in Terry Pratchett's novels. The theoretical part discusses quotational compounds generally and their comparison to common compounds. On the basis of the comparison of several existing approaches a working definition and terminology is arrived at. Several existing classifications of quotational compounds are proposed, which are further developed in the practical part. The productivity of the given phenomenon is examined in relation to language typology, and the characteristics of Terry Pratchett's style are considered. The practical part classifies 108 different quotational compounds, excerpted from the first 10 novels of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, according to their syntactic roles, origin and semantics. In this relation the productivity of quotational compounds is reconsidered and Terry Pratchett's original treatment of quotational compounds observed.
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