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Critical Insights: Gaiman, Neil

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Joseph Michael Sommers




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: Worlds’ 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




Chronology of Neil Gaiman’s Life




Works by Neil Gaiman




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors