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Alternative title:

Negation of Orality as a Source of Humour in Terry Pratchett's "Eric".

Subject and Keywords:

orality   comicality   classical tradition

Abstract:

In his novel Eric, Terry Pratchett refers to Faust and the Iliad but in contrast to what a reader expects to find, he shows his own, untoward vision of the mythical stories. This playing with literary convention is intentional and it aims to create a comical effect. It is, however, not only a way of achieving a humorous effect. Pratchett also distances himself from the oral structure and origin of the epics y creating ostentatiously literal environments for his characters. He shows the Homeric epics through the prism of later reception and the twentieth-century education system. It is not only the reader who recognises the conventional motives, but also the characters ‘inside’ the novel.

Publisher:

Pracownia Badań nad Tradycją Oralną

Date:

2016

Date issued:

2016

Resource Type:

text

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2449–8181

DOI:

10.23734/QO.2016.2.2.208.221

Language:

eng   pol

Rights holder:

Copyright by Małgorzata Zadka