Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast
Joshua BulleidAn intermittent examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series from an academic perspective, hosted by Joshua Bulleid. Contact: unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals
| Publishes | Infrequently | Episodes | 50 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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The second episode examining Terry Pratchett's 1992's Discworld novel, Small Gods, examining the role of books and memory in fantasy fiction, comparisons to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun sequence, contemplations of genre and what it means to be a ... more
The first episode on Terry Pratchett's thirteenth (and best) Discworld novel Small Gods (1992), looking at religious and folkloric depictions of tortoises, the idea that gods need belief to survive as a trope of fantasy literature through influential... more
The third and final episode tangentially related to Terry Pratchett's 1989 Discworld novel Pyramids, providing a crash course in Egyptian fantasy and science fiction—as in written by Egyptians, rather than simply about them. We go all the way back to... more
Tangential mini(ish) episode, inspired by Pyramids (1989), examining mummy fiction and Western representations of Egypt from their nineteenth-century literary origins through twentieth-century film renditions and ultimate assimilation by stupid sexy ... more
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- Impenetrable twaddle bumping around a cave
A measure of how this podcast leaps around Sir Terry’s writings, this pot plunges in close to the end of the series: we are treated to a description of how Pratchett portrays dwarves, but then says there’s several of the books that people need to read to understand the progress of this portrayal. As yet none of the other books have been covered, despite numerous digressions. Indeed where Sir Terry elegantly used foot notes, this podcast plunges down caves of unconnected, dense expositions.
As ... more
Apple Podcasts1FredTLW
United Kingdom2 years ago There are so many canonical errors here for both Pratchett and Tolkien, overlaying activist postmodernism in a highly inappropriate way. Canonical errors aren't severe, but they do detract from the presentation. For instance: when they note that the wizards had been in their present form since Sourcery, it was from Moving Pictures onward. The speakers insist on maintaining an analysis where they consider gender as exclusively performative, it can be but it isn't exclusively so. It's very obvious... more
Audible1Andrew Oettle
United States2 years ago- Disingenuous Representatation
There are so many canonical errors here for both Pratchett and Tolkien, overlaying activist postmodernism in a highly inappropriate way. Canonical errors aren't severe, but they do detract from the presentation. For instance: when they note that the wizards had been in their present form since Sourcery, it was from Moving Pictures onward. The speakers insist on maintaining an analysis where they consider gender as exclusively performative, it can be but it isn't exclusively so. It's very obvious... more
Audible1Andrew OettleUnited States2 years ago The episodes I listened to started well, but quickly degenerated into interminable, rambling digressions into everything else these over-attenuated English majors think about. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to start with their least favorite book, then talk about it for two hours? They found the first podcast so taxing to record that they took a several-months break in the middle of recording it. Please let that fact sink in before you start listening because if it was that bad for... more
Audible1Tern AboutUnited States3 years ago- interminable and cursed (probably)
The episodes I listened to started well, but quickly degenerated into interminable, rambling digressions into everything else these over-attenuated English majors think about. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to start with their least favorite book, then talk about it for two hours? They found the first podcast so taxing to record that they took a several-months break in the middle of recording it. Please let that fact sink in before you start listening because if it was that bad for... more
Audible1Tern AboutUnited States3 years ago
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