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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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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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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Terribly Disappointing,
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This review is from: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth (Hardcover)
This is one of the worst books i have ever read. The same quotes from the Sandman series are used over and over again and the author's personal experiences cloud any real information. "Intelligent" and "scholarly" are the last words I would use to describe this book; it reads like a high school student's analysis. I was excited to see a book-length examination of both the Sandman series and the ideas of Joseph Campbell, both of which I am extremely interested in, but this was disappointing beyond words.
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Neil Gainman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the MOdern Myth,
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This review is from: Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and Joseph Campbell: In Search of the Modern Myth (Paperback)
If you are looking for another story told by Neil Gaiman - This is NOT it - this is a very well written book by stephen Rauch about the philisopical and contexual aspects of myth. The book just happens to use the Sandman sieres as its primary backdrop for its discussion. All and all a very interesting book to which i would recommend, and one not be an avid fan or very knowledgable about The Sandman sieres to enjoy. Just make sure to consider it a book primarily about myth and philosophy as opposed to a book about the Sandman sieres.
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