Table of Contents
1. Shedding the Light Fantastic on Terry Pratchett’s Narrative Worlds: An Introduction; Marion Rana.- 2. Be A Witch, Be A Woman: Gendered Characterisation of Terry Pratchett’s Witches; Alice Nuttall.- 3. “Not the Most Stable of Creatures”: Female Monstrosity and Gender Negotiations in the Character of Angua von Uberwald; Marion Rana.- 4. “There Is No Race So Wretched That There Is Not Something Out There That Cares for Them”: Multiculturalism, Understanding, Empathy and Prejudice in Discworld; Mel Gibson.- 5. And the World Continues to Spin Secularism and Demystification in Good Omens; Daniel Scott.- 6. (Non-) Formal Education in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels: Mort’s Apprenticeship, Tiffany’s Coming of Age, Susan’s Learning Path and the Unseen University; Maxi Steinbrück.- 7. Learning Relativism through Humour, Intertextuality and the Shift of Viewpoint in the Truckers-Trilogy; Virginie Douglas.- 8. Parody, Pastiche and Satire in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels; Gideon Haberkorn.- 9. “At Times like This It's Traditional that a Hero Comes Forth”: Romance and Identity in Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!; Emily Lavin Leverett.- 10. Fantasy as Belief and its Happenings in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather; Minwen Huang.- 11. The Old and the New: Metamodern Oscillation and Reconstruction in Johnny and the Dead and Nation; Nurul Fateha.- 12. Feeling the Potential of Elsewhere: Terry Pratchett’s Nation in Theatre; Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak.- 13. Where Discourse Becomes Discworld: Terry Pratchett, Postmodern Writing and Genre Conventions; Thomas Scholz.