Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

Joshua Bulleid

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Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast

An 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

9月17日

15B - Small Gods, Part 2 - Books and New Sons

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 "comedy", and seriously considering whether I even want to do the show anymore.

1 小時 51 分鐘
5月26日

15A - Small Gods, Part 1: Consider the Tortoise

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 works like those of Fritz Leiber and the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as the early Dungeons and Dragons handbooks, the use of explicitly religious language in fantasy, comparisons to Philip Pulman's His Dark Materials series and, finally, an examination of religious animal ethics.

2 小時 17 分鐘
4月4日

14C – Pyramids, Part 2b: Egyptian Representations

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 the beginning, talking about traditional fantasy precursors and the origins of the modern Egyptian science fiction tradition, talking about its development throughout the later part of the twentieth century and providing some (overly) close analysis of Mustafā Mahmūd's The Spider (1965) and Nihād Sharīf's The Conqueror of Time (1972), before jumping forward to the allegedly more "authentic" post-2011 Egyptian Revolution era and the currently available English translations by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Mohammad Rabie and Ahmed Naji, among others. Contact: unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com

1 小時 45 分鐘
3月7日

14B – Pyramids, Part 2a: Mummy Madness

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 vampires.

1 小時 3 分鐘
2月17日

14A – Pyramids, Part 1: Progress and Prejudice

We push the pop-filter to the limit this week, ptalking about Pterry Pratchett's seventh, unaffiliated, Discworld novel, Pyramids (1989), discussing the novel's critical reception along with its portrayals of plumbing, progress, pupils, personal identity, pyramids and polders, among other pthings.

1 小時 26 分鐘
1月11日

Best Books in 2023

Josh counts down the best books he read for the first time in 2023.

1 小時 4 分鐘
1月11日

Best Albums of 2023

Josh, Eden and Karlo from Heavy Blog is Heavy count down their favourite albums of 2023.

2 小時 23 分鐘
1月2日

13C – Good Omens, Part 3: Faithful Adaptations

A somewhat off-the-cuff conclusion to our Good Omens coverage, loosely discussing canonicity, adaptation theory and adaptations themselves, including the 2014 BBC radio adaptation and 2019 adaptation of Good Omens, along with its recent second season continuation.

1 小時 46 分鐘

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An 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

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Joshua Bulleid
活躍年代

2021年 - 2024年
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50
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兒少不宜
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Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast