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 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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What Neil Says About "The Neil Gaiman Reader"
"Essays on things I've written, by a dozen different very smart people."
Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman Journal, Monday, February 05, 2007
~ Table of Contents ~
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
- 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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Other Books Edited Or Written By Darrell Schweitzer
The Thomas Ligotti Reader
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Weird Tales 290 Spring 1988 (Weird Tales)
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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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