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THE NEIL GAIMAN READER EDITED BY DARRELL SCHWEITZER WILDSIDE PRESS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Sandman Studies CAMPBELL AND THE SANDMAN: REMINDING US OF THE SACRED by Stephen Rauch 11 DREAMS AND FAIRY TALES: THE THEME OF RATIONALITY IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AND THE SANDMAN by Julie Myers Saxton 22 THE KING FORSAKES HIS THRONE: CAMPBELLIAN HERO ICONS IN NEIL GAIMAN'S SANDMAN byPeterS.RawlikJr. 30 BLUE AND PINK: GENDER IN NEIL GAIMAN'S WORK by Mary Borsellino 51 GODS AND OTHER MONSTERS: A SANDMAN EXIT INTERVIEW AND PHILOSOPHICAL OMNIBUS by Robert K. Elder 54 The Rest ofGaiman NEIL GAIMAN IN WORDS AND PICTURES by Ben R Indick 79 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 97 AN AUTOPSY OF STORYTELLING: METAFICTION AND NEIL GAIMAN by Chris Dowd . 103 TAPDANCING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: NEIL GAIMAN'S STARDUST AND ITS ANTECEDENTS by Darrell Schweitzer 121 THE OLD SWITCHEROO: A STUDY IN NEIL GAIMAN'S USE OF CHARACTER REVERSAL by Jason Erik Lundberg 122 BACKSTAGE by William Alexander 131 NO NEED TO CHOOSE: A MAGNIFICENT ANARCHY OF BELIEF by Bethany Alexander 135 THE THIN LINE BETWEEN by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen 140 ON THE DEATH OF MAD KING SWEENY: IRISH LORE AND LITERATURE IN AMERICAN GODS by William Alexander CATHARSIS AND THE AMERICAN GOD: NEIL GAIMAN by Baba Singh 154 THE FRAME AND THE FLASHBACK: ANALYZING NEIL GAIMAN'S STORY "MURDER MYSTERIES" by Marilyn Mattie Brahen 165 CORALINE—A QUEST FOR IDENTITY by Mike Ashley 171 ANOTHER INTERVIEW WITH NEIL GAIMAN, by Darrell Schweitzer 175 NEIL GAIMAN: AN INCOMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY by Davey Snyder 190 CONTRIBUTOR NOTES 213 INDEX \. 216.

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