Browsing Humanities by Subject "Johnny Maxwell"

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Carrying death away : social responsibility, the environment and comedy in Terry Pratchett's Johnny and the Dead

De Villiers, Michelle (Routledge, 2014-05)

Terry Pratchett is well known for his personal brand of comic fantasy (both in his adult and children’s novels), which he uses to underscore more serious and pertinent concerns. His use of the comic and fantastic are ...
Death's other kingdoms' : death and the afterlife in some recent fantasies for young adults

Brown, Molly (Unisa Press, 2014)

Trites (2000:117) argues that death is a biological imperative that possibly operates even more powerfully on the human mind than sexuality. In this article it will be suggested that coming to terms with the inevitability ...
Terry Pratchett and the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy : death, war and laughter

Joubert, Michelle Anne (University of Pretoria, 2013)

The aim of this dissertation was to critically analyse Terry Pratchett’s Johnny Maxwell trilogy in terms of three areas, namely Pratchett’s use of various fantasy techniques; how comedy and satire function as distancing ...

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