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People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.' Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was known and loved around the world for his wildly popular books, his brilliant satirical humour and for the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture. At the time of his death in 2015, he was working on his finest story yet - his own. The story of a boy who was told by his headteacher aged six that he would never amount to anything, and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. Who walked out on his A levels to become a journalist, encountering some very dead bodies and the idea for his first novel before he reached twenty. Who celebrated his knighthood by smelting himself a sword, and who, on being awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal, switched it during the prizegiving for a chocolate replica and proceeded to eat it in front of an audience of horrified librarians. Tragically, Terry ran out of time to complete the memoir he so desperately wanted to write. But now, in the only authorised biography of one of our best known and best loved writers, his manager and friend Rob Wilkins picks up where Terry left off, and with the help of friends, family and Terry's own unpublished work, tells the full story of an extraordinary life.

Romanciers anglais. --- Pratchett, Terry,

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This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, and literary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett’s work on fantasy writing and genre conventions. With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters’ situatedness within Pratchett’s novels and what this may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Two discusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modern aspects of Pratchett’s writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions. This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or student interested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular. Marion Rana is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, where she is in charge of a project analysing the negotiation of deafness in children’s literature. She is one of the publishers of interjuli, an international journal for research in children’s literature. Her recent publications deal with disability poetry, the commodification of sexuality in dystopian fiction, as well as categories of simplicity and the use of Young Adult literature in the foreign language classroom.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Pratchett, Terry. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Pratchett, Terence David John --- Пратчетт, Терри --- Pratchett, Terri --- פראצ'ט, טרי --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri --- Пратчэт, Тэры --- Pratchėt, Tėry --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on --- Пратчет, Тери --- Pratchet, Teri --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn --- テリー・プラチェット --- プラチェット, テリー --- Purachetto, Terī --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon --- Прачет, Тери --- Pračet, Teri --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon --- Претчетт, Террі --- Pretchett, Terri --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on --- 泰瑞·普萊契 --- 普萊契, 泰瑞 --- Pulaiqi, Tairui --- Bradshaw, Georgina --- Children's literature. --- British literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Fiction. --- Children's Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Juvenile literature --- Philosophy --- Pratchett, Terry --- Pratchett, Terence David John, --- Пратчетт, Терри, --- Pratchett, Terri, --- פראצ'ט, טרי, --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri, --- Пратчэт, Тэры, --- Pratchėt, Tėry, --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон, --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on, --- Пратчет, Тери, --- Pratchet, Teri, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων, --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn, --- テリー・プラチェット, --- プラチェット, テリー, --- Purachetto, Terī, --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон, --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon, --- Прачет, Тери, --- Pračet, Teri, --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон, --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon, --- Претчетт, Террі, --- Pretchett, Terri, --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон, --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on, --- 泰瑞·普萊契, --- 普萊契, 泰瑞, --- Pulaiqi, Tairui, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.

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“The books are true while reality is lying…” Championing the popular Fantasy genre on the same terms as its readers, Rayment casts a critical eye over the substance and methods of political critique in the Fantasy novels of Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and China Miéville. Ranging across subjects as diverse as exquisite fundamentalism and revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and sex-scarred lovers and pondering the homicidal tendencies of fairy tales and opera, Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity develops a theoretically wide-ranging and illuminating account of how the novels of these writers do and do not sustain politically insightful critique of the real world, while bringing intellectual and ethical concerns to bear on the popular Fantasy form.

Fantasy fiction --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Fantastic fiction --- Heroic fantasy (Fiction) --- Fantasy literature --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Pratchett, Terry --- Pullman, Philip, --- Miéville, China --- Mʹevilʹ, Chaĭna --- МЬевиль, Чайна --- פולמן, פיליפ, --- Pratchett, Terence David John --- Пратчетт, Терри --- Pratchett, Terri --- פראצ'ט, טרי --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri --- Пратчэт, Тэры --- Pratchėt, Tėry --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on --- Пратчет, Тери --- Pratchet, Teri --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn --- テリー・プラチェット --- プラチェット, テリー --- Purachetto, Terī --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon --- Прачет, Тери --- Pračet, Teri --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon --- Претчетт, Террі --- Pretchett, Terri --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on --- 泰瑞·普萊契 --- 普萊契, 泰瑞 --- Pulaiqi, Tairui --- Bradshaw, Georgina --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pratchett, Terence David John, --- Пратчетт, Терри, --- Pratchett, Terri, --- פראצ'ט, טרי, --- Prats'eṭ, Ṭeri, --- Пратчэт, Тэры, --- Pratchėt, Tėry, --- Пратчэт, Тэрэнс Дэвід Джон, --- Pratchėt, Tėrėns Dėvid Dz︠h︡on, --- Пратчет, Тери, --- Pratchet, Teri, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρι, --- Πράτσετ, Τέρενς Ντέιβιντ Τζων, --- Pratset, Terens D̲eivint Tzōn, --- テリー・プラチェット, --- プラチェット, テリー, --- Purachetto, Terī, --- Пратчетт, Теренс Дэвид Джон, --- Pratchett, Terens Dėvid Dzhon, --- Прачет, Тери, --- Pračet, Teri, --- Прачет, Теренс Дејвид Џон, --- Pračet, Terens Dejvid Džon, --- Претчетт, Террі, --- Pretchett, Terri, --- Претчетт, Теренс Девід Джон, --- Pretchett, Terens Devid Dz︠h︡on, --- 泰瑞·普萊契, --- 普萊契, 泰瑞, --- Pulaiqi, Tairui, --- History and criticism --- Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism --- Kearns, Patrick