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The carnival of realities in Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s children’s books

The carnivalesque, a theory of folk humour developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, is a time of collapse and overturning of conventional boundaries and norms of the world. It is essentially a licensed time of revelry and excitement which the ruling classes … Continue reading

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Gaiman’s checks in Jack Benny

Just listening the repeat of John Lloyd’s Museum of Curiosities with Sarah Millican and Neil Gaiman. Gaiman has just checked in The Jack Benny Show (archives appear to here)  into  the museum as a way of showing the power of … Continue reading

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Dreaming the World

In this paper, I am going to look at two of Neil Gaiman’s children’s novels, Coraline and Mirrormask, which use the Alice books as a textual reference. When Alice wakes up from her dream at the end of Through the … Continue reading

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Relating the tombstones – Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book reviewed

Neil Gaiman‘s Graveyard Book (McKean Cover Riddell Cover) has been a while in the coming but it has been worth the wait. Coming in two editions, one illustrated by Chris Riddell and the other by Dave McKean, the book engages … Continue reading

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Neil Gaiman’s Coraline sneak peak trailer

OMG, Neil Gaiman’s got a sneaky trailer of the Henry Selick’s animation of Coraline. It looks absolutely fab (its short though) and reminds me a little of Tim Burton’s animation style or Jan Svankmajer. Coraline is one of my all … Continue reading

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