Neil Gaiman

Sommers, Joseph Michael, 1976- (editor.).

Summary: Provides an introduction to Neil Gaiman and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Record details

ISBN: 9781682172605
ISBN: 1682172600
Physical Description: print
xxxvi, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On matters of dreaming, world building, and finding Neil Gaiman's magic / Joseph Michael Sommers -- Biographical sketch of Neil Gaiman / Justin Wigard -- "We have an obligation to imagine": a critical reception of the work of Neil Gaiman / Kyle Eveleth and Justin Wigard -- Embodied in name alone: Nobody Owens and the metonymic estrangement from the living and the dead in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book / Joseph Michael Sommers -- In the shadow of Balder: breaking the cycle of Ragnarok in American Gods / Kristin Bovaird-Abbo -- Opening the door, crossing the wall: (re) mediation and women's roles in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Stardust /Julie Perino -- Guilty pleasures: Neil Gaiman's books for children for adults / Annette Wannamaker -- Reimagining the cautionary tale: collage in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's The Wolves in the Walls / Krystal Howard -- "What is she?": Neil Gaiman's intertextual conversation on female artistry in Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Marlyn Thomas -- "Of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes": polyphony and narrative braiding in The Sandman: World's End / Kyle Eveleth -- Going postmodern Gothic: Neil Gaiman's feminist fairy tales / Jill Coste -- "Everybody's here": radical reflexivity in the metafiction of The Sandman / Orion Ussner Kidder -- The apocalypse and other silly bits: Good Omens, collaboration, and authorial one-upmanship / Laura Nicosia -- Spoilers, sweetie: a madman and his monsters: Neil Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife" / Kelly J. MurPhy -- Crafting advocacy through intimacy and empathy: a rhetorical analysis of The Reading Agency Lecture / Kristin McIlhagga.