Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth - Hardcover

Stephen Rauch

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9781587157899: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1587157896 ISBN 13: 9781587157899
Publisher: Wildside Press, 2003

Synopsis

The first scholarly book-length examination of the work of comics legend Neil Gaiman includes detailed analysis of his best-selling "Sandman" and "Death" series, a look at his work's relationship to Joseph Campbell, and such topics as "Living in a Desacralized World," "The Relationship of Dreams and Myth in Campbell, Jung, and Gaiman's Sandman," "Humanization, Change, and Rebirth: The Hero's Journey," "The Role of the Artist and the Art of Storytelling," and more. A fascinating journey behind the comics work of one of the most interesting and challenging popular writers of today, "Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth" is the book which Gaiman's fans have been waiting for!

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About the Author

Stephen Rauch is the author of the book "Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth," the first book-length criticism of Gaiman's work, and a forthcoming book on Garth Ennis' and Steve Dillon's "Preacher" and the Western in film and fiction. He earnestly believes that the study of popular culture can close the rift between academics and everyone else. Stephen's interests include comics, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fiction, religion and mythology, psychology, and pop music. He is a regular contributor to PopMatters, an online journal of popular culture. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he was born in South Florida in 1979, but currently resides in Philadelphia.

Review

Good, readable and intelligent...You could probably teach a pretty good SANDMAN class using just that and [Bender's] Sandman Companion. -- Neil Gaiman's online journal (NeilGaiman.com), March 9, 2003

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Publisher
Wildside Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1587157896
ISBN 13 
9781587157899
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
156
Rating
  • 3.51 out of 5 stars
    73 ratings by Goodreads

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