Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University English Theses Department of English 5-10-2014 Who's Afraid Of The Wicked Wit?: A Comparison Of The Satirical Treatment Of The University System In Terry Pratchett's Discworld And Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall Mary Alice Wojciechowski Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses Recommended Citation Wojciechowski, Mary Alice, "Who's Afraid Of The Wicked Wit?: A Comparison Of The Satirical Treatment Of The University System In Terry Pratchett's Discworld And Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/165 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WHO’S AFRAID OF THE WICKED WIT?: A COMPARISON OF THE SATIRCAL TREATMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN TERRY PRATCHETT’S DISCWORLD AND EVELYN WAUGH’S DECLINE AND FALL by MARY ALICE WOJCIECHOWSKI Under the Direction of Edward Christie ABSTRACT Terry Pratchett, author of the best-selling Discworld series, and winner of multiple literary awards, writes satirical fantasy for adults and children. The academic community has been slow to accept Pratchett’s work as worthy of notice. Factors that contribute to this reticence include writing fantasy, writing for children, high volume of work, and popularity in general society. This thesis will provide a comparison between Pratchett’s work and that of Evelyn Waugh by focusing on their academic satire, shedding new light on Pratchett’s work from a literary perspective, thus lending greater value to his Discworld series as a collection of novels with measurable literary value to the academic community.