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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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Wise wizards and wicked witches? An Analysis of Magic Users in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
SEDLÁKOVÁ, Anna
The aim of this thesis is to examine several works from the Discworld series by Sir Terence David John Pratchett, focusing on magic and the people using it. The thesis starts with an examination of witches and wizards in English tradition. It also concerns magic and how it is viewed in popular literature throughout the twentieth century. The main focus of the thesis lies in an analysis of Terry Pratchett's magic system, wizards and witches and stereotypes connected with them.
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Intertextuality in selected works by Terry Pratchett
Nečesaný, Tomáš ; Janovec, Ladislav (advisor) ; Holanová, Radka (referee)
IN ENGLISH The thesis deals with intertext and architext relations in some works of T. Pratchett. It tries to introduce some variants of intertextual referencing, their possibilities and above all to map the use of this literary phenomenon together with its interpretation. The aim of this work is to create at least an approximate map of links with their description. The method of work is primarily a thorough study of novels in translation and their originals. The introductory part of the thesis deals with the theoretical basis, the central part of the work is a summary of individual passages containing an intertext or architectext reference and their analysis.
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Narrative Techniques in Pratchett's Discworld
FELENDA, Šimon
The bachelor thesis deals with the narrative of Terry Pratchett in the book series called Discworld. The biggest concern of this thesis is the representation of time, space and characters in the books selected from the series. The aim is to map the nature of Prachett's fictitious universe and to describe the narrative techniques of his representations.
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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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