Perverse Identities
Identities in Conflict
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- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. 598 pp.
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- Perverse Identities. Identities in conflict
- Differences between Male and Female Speech: a classical topic
- Identity in conflict in a Medieval border: the case of an offer/agreement by the count Ermengol VI of Urgell
- Identités en conflit. Disputes entre catholiques et « bons hommes » à la veille de la Croisade contre les Albigeois, 1206-1207
- Ethnic identity in medieval Sardinia: rethinking and reflecting on 14th and 15th century examples
- The Battle of Sanluri in the process of recreating Sardinian identity
- Magia, hechicería y sexualidad en la narrativa caballeresca temprana: tres identidades perversas y domesticadas
- Tracing Miss Havisham in the Mirror, or Aging through the Other
- « Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère ! » : le roman populaire du XIXe siècle et de la Belle Époque entre manichéisme et mauvaise foi
- Vous dites Fantômas ? Dynamique sérielle et identités perverses
- Helpless and Invisible: Female Identity, Invalidism and the Cult of True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church
- Du mythe à l’idéologie politique : l’utilisation des légendes populaires par le Régime de Vichy
- Agrarian Colonization and Francoist neo-traditionalism
- Perversion, Urbanity and Homosexuals. Multidimensionality in the Sex Life of the City
- Cléopâtre de la Main parmi les ruines de l’identité du papier mâché : les identités perverses dans Hosanna de Michel Tremblay
- Aventura y perversión en El último goliardo
- Evil in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Havelock Vetinari
- Identités perverses et malfaisantes versus identités rebelles dans la poésie chilienne de la dictature et de la Transition
- Les structures de la perversion (L’analyse de quelques romans de Thierry Jonquet)
- The use of immigration in the debate on identity in Catalonia during the course of resumption of democracy
- Hashtag Identity: Semiotics of The Spanish 15M Protest
- Front Pages of the Spanish and Catalan Press on the Demonstration of September 11th, 2012: Illustrating a National Identity or a Nationalist Farce?
- Cultural nationalism: How are cultural practices involved in the nation-building process?
- El morfema género en el pensamiento de la Real Academia Española: ¿Cuestión que va más allá de la teoría gramatical?
- La royauté joola-ajamaat : constructions sémantiques et représentations autour du genre
- Immigration subsaharienne et altérité : une approche sociobiographique à la perception de la différence
- Cultural Bricolage on Minors who Migrate on Their Own
- Reconstruction of the identity in destination
- Leadership and Complex Identities in Associations of African Immigrants
- Mi Nombre es Nadie. El Síndrome de Ulises. Emigrar en el Siglo XXI. Salud Mental y Migración
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- About the editor
- About the book
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- Perverse Identities. Identities in conflict
- Differences between Male and Female Speech: a classical topic
- Identity in conflict in a Medieval border: the case of an offer/agreement by the count Ermengol VI of Urgell
- Identités en conflit. Disputes entre catholiques et « bons hommes » à la veille de la Croisade contre les Albigeois, 1206-1207
- Ethnic identity in medieval Sardinia: rethinking and reflecting on 14th and 15th century examples
- The Battle of Sanluri in the process of recreating Sardinian identity
- Magia, hechicería y sexualidad en la narrativa caballeresca temprana: tres identidades perversas y domesticadas
- Tracing Miss Havisham in the Mirror, or Aging through the Other
- « Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère ! » : le roman populaire du XIXe siècle et de la Belle Époque entre manichéisme et mauvaise foi
- Vous dites Fantômas ? Dynamique sérielle et identités perverses
- Helpless and Invisible: Female Identity, Invalidism and the Cult of True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church
- Du mythe à l’idéologie politique : l’utilisation des légendes populaires par le Régime de Vichy
- Agrarian Colonization and Francoist neo-traditionalism
- Perversion, Urbanity and Homosexuals. Multidimensionality in the Sex Life of the City
- Cléopâtre de la Main parmi les ruines de l’identité du papier mâché : les identités perverses dans Hosanna de Michel Tremblay
- Aventura y perversión en El último goliardo
- Evil in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Havelock Vetinari
- Identités perverses et malfaisantes versus identités rebelles dans la poésie chilienne de la dictature et de la Transition
- Les structures de la perversion (L’analyse de quelques romans de Thierry Jonquet)
- The use of immigration in the debate on identity in Catalonia during the course of resumption of democracy
- Hashtag Identity: Semiotics of The Spanish 15M Protest
- Front Pages of the Spanish and Catalan Press on the Demonstration of September 11th, 2012: Illustrating a National Identity or a Nationalist Farce?
- Cultural nationalism: How are cultural practices involved in the nation-building process?
- El morfema género en el pensamiento de la Real Academia Española: ¿Cuestión que va más allá de la teoría gramatical?
- La royauté joola-ajamaat : constructions sémantiques et représentations autour du genre
- Immigration subsaharienne et altérité : une approche sociobiographique à la perception de la différence
- Cultural Bricolage on Minors who Migrate on Their Own
- Reconstruction of the identity in destination
- Leadership and Complex Identities in Associations of African Immigrants
- Mi Nombre es Nadie. El Síndrome de Ulises. Emigrar en el Siglo XXI. Salud Mental y Migración
- Series index
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Luis ESPINOSA
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Introduction
The Discworld, a flat, alternate world to ours created by the British author Sir Terry Pratchett, is the setting for a phenomenal literary success in terms of sales and criticism. By the time this paper is written, forty fantasy novels set in the Discworld have been published in thirty-seven different languages, having sold over 70 million copies worldwide1. Many different beings such as vampires, undead, trolls or werewolves populate this “world and mirror of worlds”2, and archetypical fantastic elements like dragons, magic, time travel, afterlife and automata are present.
While the Discworld novels were initially developed as a parody of the type of genre inspired by Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings3, they started re-shaping as a unique science-fiction and fantasy series of books that include themes such as racism, technology, social inequalities, war or sexism, all in a growingly dark and somber environment4.
Another element to highlight with regard to the Discworld novels is the vast amount of references they include, not only to other literary works, but also contextual elements from our own world, folklore and fairy tales, legends, ← 301 | 302 → and popular culture in general. In addition, a reader will find several analogies to historical events and persons when reading the Discworld novels5.
While the Discworld is a heterogeneous setting where countries or continents that differ largely among themselves exist, this paper focuses on the vibrant Discworld...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Perverse Identities. Identities in conflict
- Differences between Male and Female Speech: a classical topic
- Identity in conflict in a Medieval border: the case of an offer/agreement by the count Ermengol VI of Urgell
- Identités en conflit. Disputes entre catholiques et « bons hommes » à la veille de la Croisade contre les Albigeois, 1206-1207
- Ethnic identity in medieval Sardinia: rethinking and reflecting on 14th and 15th century examples
- The Battle of Sanluri in the process of recreating Sardinian identity
- Magia, hechicería y sexualidad en la narrativa caballeresca temprana: tres identidades perversas y domesticadas
- Tracing Miss Havisham in the Mirror, or Aging through the Other
- « Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère ! » : le roman populaire du XIXe siècle et de la Belle Époque entre manichéisme et mauvaise foi
- Vous dites Fantômas ? Dynamique sérielle et identités perverses
- Helpless and Invisible: Female Identity, Invalidism and the Cult of True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church
- Du mythe à l’idéologie politique : l’utilisation des légendes populaires par le Régime de Vichy
- Agrarian Colonization and Francoist neo-traditionalism
- Perversion, Urbanity and Homosexuals. Multidimensionality in the Sex Life of the City
- Cléopâtre de la Main parmi les ruines de l’identité du papier mâché : les identités perverses dans Hosanna de Michel Tremblay
- Aventura y perversión en El último goliardo
- Evil in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Havelock Vetinari
- Identités perverses et malfaisantes versus identités rebelles dans la poésie chilienne de la dictature et de la Transition
- Les structures de la perversion (L’analyse de quelques romans de Thierry Jonquet)
- The use of immigration in the debate on identity in Catalonia during the course of resumption of democracy
- Hashtag Identity: Semiotics of The Spanish 15M Protest
- Front Pages of the Spanish and Catalan Press on the Demonstration of September 11th, 2012: Illustrating a National Identity or a Nationalist Farce?
- Cultural nationalism: How are cultural practices involved in the nation-building process?
- El morfema género en el pensamiento de la Real Academia Española: ¿Cuestión que va más allá de la teoría gramatical?
- La royauté joola-ajamaat : constructions sémantiques et représentations autour du genre
- Immigration subsaharienne et altérité : une approche sociobiographique à la perception de la différence
- Cultural Bricolage on Minors who Migrate on Their Own
- Reconstruction of the identity in destination
- Leadership and Complex Identities in Associations of African Immigrants
- Mi Nombre es Nadie. El Síndrome de Ulises. Emigrar en el Siglo XXI. Salud Mental y Migración
- Series index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editor
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Perverse Identities. Identities in conflict
- Differences between Male and Female Speech: a classical topic
- Identity in conflict in a Medieval border: the case of an offer/agreement by the count Ermengol VI of Urgell
- Identités en conflit. Disputes entre catholiques et « bons hommes » à la veille de la Croisade contre les Albigeois, 1206-1207
- Ethnic identity in medieval Sardinia: rethinking and reflecting on 14th and 15th century examples
- The Battle of Sanluri in the process of recreating Sardinian identity
- Magia, hechicería y sexualidad en la narrativa caballeresca temprana: tres identidades perversas y domesticadas
- Tracing Miss Havisham in the Mirror, or Aging through the Other
- « Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère ! » : le roman populaire du XIXe siècle et de la Belle Époque entre manichéisme et mauvaise foi
- Vous dites Fantômas ? Dynamique sérielle et identités perverses
- Helpless and Invisible: Female Identity, Invalidism and the Cult of True Womanhood in Ellen Glasgow’s The Miller of Old Church
- Du mythe à l’idéologie politique : l’utilisation des légendes populaires par le Régime de Vichy
- Agrarian Colonization and Francoist neo-traditionalism
- Perversion, Urbanity and Homosexuals. Multidimensionality in the Sex Life of the City
- Cléopâtre de la Main parmi les ruines de l’identité du papier mâché : les identités perverses dans Hosanna de Michel Tremblay
- Aventura y perversión en El último goliardo
- Evil in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Havelock Vetinari
- Identités perverses et malfaisantes versus identités rebelles dans la poésie chilienne de la dictature et de la Transition
- Les structures de la perversion (L’analyse de quelques romans de Thierry Jonquet)
- The use of immigration in the debate on identity in Catalonia during the course of resumption of democracy
- Hashtag Identity: Semiotics of The Spanish 15M Protest
- Front Pages of the Spanish and Catalan Press on the Demonstration of September 11th, 2012: Illustrating a National Identity or a Nationalist Farce?
- Cultural nationalism: How are cultural practices involved in the nation-building process?
- El morfema género en el pensamiento de la Real Academia Española: ¿Cuestión que va más allá de la teoría gramatical?
- La royauté joola-ajamaat : constructions sémantiques et représentations autour du genre
- Immigration subsaharienne et altérité : une approche sociobiographique à la perception de la différence
- Cultural Bricolage on Minors who Migrate on Their Own
- Reconstruction of the identity in destination
- Leadership and Complex Identities in Associations of African Immigrants
- Mi Nombre es Nadie. El Síndrome de Ulises. Emigrar en el Siglo XXI. Salud Mental y Migración
- Series index