Terry Pratchett's ethical worlds : essays on identity and narrative in Discworld and beyond / edited by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett.

"Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination. It constructs an ethical stance that values informed and self-aware choices, knowledge of the world in which one makes those choices, the importance of play and humor in crafting a compassionate world...

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Other Authors: Noone, Kristin (Editor)
Leverett, Emily Lavin (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
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Physical Description:1 volume ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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