It becomes apparent that the narrators are unreliable, not only in terms of controlling the information the reader is allowed access to within the narrative but also because of spatiotemporal ambiguity within the narratives. The AM (Ankh-Morpork dollar) is equal to 100 pennies (pence). The analysis is divided into four chapters as follows: how to read the unnatural in a narrative, what constitutes an unnatural space, the respective narrator’s voice, and finally, reliability of the narrators within their unnatural space. By using a combination of the fairly recent sub-discipline within narratology, unnatural narrative theory, and Genette’s question of “who speaks?”, this study analyses the narrators and the different kinds of unnatural spaces in which they speak. This paper compares the unnatural aspects of Gulliver’s Travels and select City Watch instalments of Discworld. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. Powie opowiada o wojnie midzy Ankh-Morpork a Klatchem o tajemnicz wysp Leshp, ktra wynurzya si na. The design and layout is based on images, descriptions, and book covers. The aim of the article is to perform a comparative analysis of functions served by characters’ proper names in Jingo by Terry Pratchett and in the Polish translation of the book. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. Terry Pratchett D 27 - Bogowie, honor, Ankh. This is my take on the Guild of Assassins from the Terry Pratchett 'Discworld' books. Functions of Characters’ Proper Names in Terry Pratchett’s Jingo and Its Polish Translation entitled Bogowie, honor, Ankh-Morpork.
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