Critical insights : Neil Gaiman / editor, Joseph Michael Sommers, Central Michigan University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sommers, Joseph Michael, 1976- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaiman, Neil--Criticism and interpretation.

Gaiman, Neil.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 245 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Salem Press

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

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

Contents:

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. Murohy

Crafting advocacy through intimacy and empathy: a rhetorical analysis of The Reading Agency Lecture / Kristin McIlhagga.

Notes:

Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781682172612

9781682172605

1682172600

OCLC:

1105613661