Deconstructing Gaiman
Essays & literary criticisms of Neil Gaiman's work, edited by Darrell Schweitzer of Weird Tales. Neil Gaiman calls The Neil Gaiman Reader "Essays on things I've written, by a dozen different very smart people."
The Value of Literary Criticism
The meaning of a writer's work is often amorphous, confusing, or conflicting - even to the writer themselves. Good works leave us wondering, discussing, and dissecting; great works leave questions to answer long after the story is published.
The questions are as often about the writer, or about ourselves, as they are about the story itself. In The Neil Gaiman Reader, writers explore the questions, the writer himself, and, ultimately, themselves.
The questions are as often about the writer, or about ourselves, as they are about the story itself. In The Neil Gaiman Reader, writers explore the questions, the writer himself, and, ultimately, themselves.
The Neil Gaiman Reader
The Neil Gaiman Reader
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The Neil Gaiman Reader
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What Neil Says About "The Neil Gaiman Reader"
"Essays on things I've written, by a dozen different very smart people."
"...I recently spent an interested couple of hours browsing through my complementary copy of The Neil Gaiman Reader, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Essays on things I've written, by a dozen different very smart people. I think it's probably a very good book of essays, but I am undoubtedly the last person on earth who can usefully comment on it, being, as I am, the least competent critic alive of the author in question. There were a few moments when I felt like the author being described had done something monstrously clever , but they always immediately balanced by moments where I sighed and thought "You may think I'm being very clever there, but I only wrote it like that because that was how it happened, and I wasn't being clever at all..."
Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman Journal, Monday, February 05, 2007
Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman Journal, Monday, February 05, 2007
~ Table of Contents ~
Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer
Weird Tales Talks with Neil Gaiman by Darrell Schweitzer
~ Sandman Studies ~
Campbell and The Sandman: Reminding Us of the Sacred by Stephen
Rauch
Dreams and Fairy Tales: The Theme of Rationality in A Midsummer
Night's Dream and The Sandman by Julie Myers Saxton
The King Forsakes His Throne: Campbellian Hero Icons in Neil
Gaiman's Sandman by Peter S. Rawlik, Jr.
Blue and Pink: Gender in Neil Gaiman's Work by Mary Borsellino
An Interview with Neil Gaiman by Rob Elder
~ The Rest of Gaiman (A Very Large Subject Indeed) ~
Neil Gaiman in Words and Pictures by Ben P. Indick
Pay Attention: There May or May Not Be a Man Behind the Curtain,
An Analysis of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Violent Cases by
JaNell Golden
An Autopsy of Storytelling: Metafiction and Neil Gaiman by Chris
Dowd
Tapdancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Neil Gaiman's Stardust and
Its Antecedents by Darrell Schweitzer
"The Old Switcheroo: A Study in Role Reversal" by Jason Erik
Lundberg
Backstage by William Alexander
No Need to Choose: A Magnificent Anarchy of Belief by Bethany
Alexander
The Thin Line Between by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
On the Death of King Sweeny: Irish Lore and Literature in
American Gods by William Alexander
Catharsis and the American God by Baba Singh
The Frame and the Flashback: Analyzing Neil
Gaiman's Story "Murder Mysteries" by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
Coraline: A Quest for Identity by Mike Ashley
Bibliography by Deborah Snyder
Weird Tales Talks with Neil Gaiman by Darrell Schweitzer
~ Sandman Studies ~
Campbell and The Sandman: Reminding Us of the Sacred by Stephen
Rauch
Dreams and Fairy Tales: The Theme of Rationality in A Midsummer
Night's Dream and The Sandman by Julie Myers Saxton
The King Forsakes His Throne: Campbellian Hero Icons in Neil
Gaiman's Sandman by Peter S. Rawlik, Jr.
Blue and Pink: Gender in Neil Gaiman's Work by Mary Borsellino
An Interview with Neil Gaiman by Rob Elder
~ The Rest of Gaiman (A Very Large Subject Indeed) ~
Neil Gaiman in Words and Pictures by Ben P. Indick
Pay Attention: There May or May Not Be a Man Behind the Curtain,
An Analysis of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Violent Cases by
JaNell Golden
An Autopsy of Storytelling: Metafiction and Neil Gaiman by Chris
Dowd
Tapdancing on the Shoulders of Giants: Neil Gaiman's Stardust and
Its Antecedents by Darrell Schweitzer
"The Old Switcheroo: A Study in Role Reversal" by Jason Erik
Lundberg
Backstage by William Alexander
No Need to Choose: A Magnificent Anarchy of Belief by Bethany
Alexander
The Thin Line Between by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
On the Death of King Sweeny: Irish Lore and Literature in
American Gods by William Alexander
Catharsis and the American God by Baba Singh
The Frame and the Flashback: Analyzing Neil
Gaiman's Story "Murder Mysteries" by Marilyn Mattie Brahen
Coraline: A Quest for Identity by Mike Ashley
Bibliography by Deborah Snyder
Writings Explored In the Neil Gaiman Reader
Violent Cases
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The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You
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American Gods: A Novel
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Murder Mysteries
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Coraline
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Stardust
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Citing Gaiman
Articles, peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, theses, and books that cite Neil Gaiman's works.
- Google Scholars Search: Neil Gaiman
- Search of citations in scholarly literature.
Citing "The Neil Gaiman Reader"
- Peter Sanderson Refers To "Neil Gaiman Reader" Essay On "Violent Cases"
- Sanderson refers to ancillary texts that can shed light on the themes in "Violent Cases" as well. An essay in the "Neil Gaiman Reader" illustrates Gaiman's approach to "Violent Cases," in which Gaiman said, "Storytellers are unreliable."
Edward Carey, "Examining Gaiman's Violent Cases With Peter Sanderson"
(Comic Book Resource, February 7, 2007)
More of Neil's Work
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About The Editor...
Darrell Schweitzer is an editor at Weird Tales magazine. His intimidatingly long bibliography of books & magazines he's either edited, written, or written for includes several books I read as a child, never knowing or even dreaming that I'd work with the writer someday.
Other Books Edited Or Written By Darrell Schweitzer
The Thomas Ligotti Reader
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Weird Tales 290 (Spring 1988)
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We Are All Legends
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Other Resources
- Studio 360 Interview With George C. Wolfe
- "Kurt Andersen and special guest theater producer and director George C. Wolfe talk about Shakespeare's influence on contemporary culture, from Neil Gaiman's graphic novel, "Sandman," to the syllabus at business school."
Studio 360, November 25, 2000
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