Neil Gaiman and philosophy : gods gone wild!
2012
Book
Neil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children's books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book. Neil Gaiman and Philosophy looks at Gaiman's work through a philosophical lens. How does fantasy interact with reality and what can each tell us about the other? Do we each have other selves who embody different personal qualities? If the unknown influences the known, is the unknown just as real as the known? What makes people truly valuable? In Neil Gaiman and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers explore Gaiman's best-loved and unforgettable worlds.
Main title:
Neil Gaiman and philosophy : gods gone wild! / edited by Tracy L. Bealer, Rachel Luria, and Wayne Yuen.
Imprint:
Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2012.
Collation:
ix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Traveling with the gods / Tracy L. Bealer, Rachel Luria -- Gods behaving badly -- 1. Mr. Wednesday's game of chance / Elizabeth Swanstrom -- 2. American gods is all lies! / Greg Littmann -- 3. To survive, you must believe / Ray Bossert -- 4. American monads / Richard Rosenbaum -- What you see -- 5. Living in the Dreamworld / T. Bradley Richards -- 6. Apologizing to a rat / Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry -- 7. Seeing isn't believing / Kandace Lytle -- The grim teacher -- 8. The high cost of learning / Andrew Terjesen -- 9. Coming of age with the ageless / Wade Newhouse -- 10. Hell can be good for you / Najwa Al-Tabaa -- 11. The dead teach us how to live / Wayne Yuen -- Questions of identity -- 12. Forever Batman / Brandon Kempner -- 13. Four bikers of the Apocalypse -- Tuomas W. Manninen -- 14. Nobody's home / Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN:
9780812697650 (pbk)0812697650 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
234057