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UNINA9910156179903321 |
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Titolo |
Critical insights : Neil Gaiman / / editor, Joseph Michael Sommers, Central Michigan University |
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Salem Press |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated |
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Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016] |
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�2016 |
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ISBN |
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9781682172612 |
1-68217-260-0 |
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Edizione |
[[First edition].] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxvi, 245 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Provides an introduction to Neil Gaiman and the critical discussions surrounding his work. |
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