Critical Insights: Neil Gaiman

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2016

ISBN13

9781682172612

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

One of the most prolific and award-winning writers of prose spanning comics and graphic novels to feature-length films and television serials, Neil Gaiman is as popular with critics as he is with readers. The essays in this volume trace the work of the author.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About this Volume.
On Matters of Dreaming, World Building, and Finding Neil Gaiman's Magic.
Biographical Sketch of Neil Gaiman.
Critical Contexts.
1: “We Have an Obligation to Imagine”: A Critical Reception of the Work of Neil Gaiman.
2: Embodied in Name Alone: Nobody Owens and the Metonymic Estrangement from the Living and the Dead in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.
3: In the Shadow of Balder: Breaking the Cycle of Ragnarok in American Gods.
4: Opening the Door, Crossing the Wall: (Re) Mediation and Women's Roles in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Stardust.
Critical Readings.
5: Guilty Pleasures: Neil Gaiman's Books for Children for Adults.
6: Reimagining the Cautionary Tale: Collage in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's The Wolves in the Walls.
7: “What Is She?”: Neil Gaiman's Intertextual Conversation on Female Artistry in Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
8: “Of Viewpoints, of Images, of Memories and Puns and Lost Hopes”: Polyphony and Narrative Braiding in The Sandman: Worlds' End.
9: Going Postmodern Gothic: Neil Gaiman's Feminist Fairy Tales.
10: “Everybody's Here”: Radical Reflexivity in the Metafiction of The Sandman.
11: The Apocalypse and Other Silly Bits: Good Omens, Collaboration, and Authorial One-Upmanship.
12: “Spoilers, Sweetie”—A Madman and His Monsters: Neil Gaiman's “The Doctor's Wife”.
13: Crafting Advocacy through Intimacy and Empathy: A Rhetorical Analysis of The Reading Agency Lecture.
Resources.
Chronology of Neil Gaiman's Life.
Works by Neil Gaiman.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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