Zanegowanie ustności jako źródło komizmu w „Eryku” Terry’ego Pratchetta
NEGATION OF ORALITY AS A SOURCE OF HUMOURIN TERRY PRATCHETT’SERIC

Summary/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 by 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.

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