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By Tracy L. Bealer, Rachel Luria, Wayne Yuen
Neil Gaiman is the imaginitive wizard at the back of the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO sequence) and The Anansi Boys, the photo sequence The Sandman, and well known children’s books like Coraline and The Graveyard Book.
Neil Gaiman and Philosophy appears at Gaiman’s paintings via a philosophical lens. How does fable have interaction with truth and what can each one let us know in regards to the different? can we each one produce other selves who embrace diverse own features? If the unknown affects the identified, is the unknown simply as actual because the identified? What makes humans actually valuable?
In Neil Gaiman and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers discover Gaiman’s best-loved and unforgettable worlds:
The Graveyard Book, a macabre parallel to The Jungle Book, within which the boy Bod is raised by means of the supernatural population of a graveyard.
Coraline, within which a lady overlooked through her mom and dad unearths one other international with an different mom who can pay her loads of recognition, yet then seems to be evil and won’t enable her go.
Neverwhere, within which a London guy discovers a paranormal parallel urban, London Below.
The Sandman, best-selling comedian books during which the Lord of desires makes an attempt to rebuild his country after years of imprisonment.
Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett) treats biblical prophecy, the Antichrist, and the top instances as a hilarious comedian story, full of sly yet good-humored twists and turns.
MirrorMask, the place a tender circus woman reveals that the photographs she has drawn have given her entry to an attractive global of sunshine and shadow, populated with characters who've designs on her.
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