THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 More fun with geometrical approximations as in Part 2, but this time, a little shorter. In that essay, I gave visual examples as to how t...

In my original 2015  ASPIRIN FOR ANTHOLOGIES , I was concerned with mapping out the phenomenological affiliations of each of the separate st...

In my first essay on this subject, written three years ago, I pointed out the way a given group of characters might accue mythic amplitude ...

Though this post continues some of the thoughts from Part 1 , I was tempted to title it something like "Narrative and Significant Domin...

If there's one shortcoming in my Nietzschean-Bataillean " excess theory "-- aside from the fact that anyone reading about it w...

Once more I return to the endlessly fascinating subject of the process of domain-transgression, of moving from the domain of the subcombativ...

Having recently referenced the "excess" theory last put forth in 2013's  THE NARRATIVE RULE OF EXCESS, I began wondering to my...

Since I gave an example of a LI'L ABNER mythcomic this week, I decided to recycle a portion of an earlier FEMMES FORMIDABLES essay as a...

Though contemporary Japanese manga (and its various Asian cousins) can be episodic, they're best known today for their sprawling, multi-...

In MORE AMPLITUDE ATTITUDE I wrote the following of Robert Kanigher's original take on the Injustice Society of America. Kanigher fa...

Following up with the rest of LOST IN SPACE's Season 1 episodes, which I began analyzing for the combative mode here . "One of Ou...

In January and February 2016 I wrote three AMPLITUDE ATTITUDE essays, starting here , on the subject of using this term to gauge the differ...

I'm returning once more to a topic raised in the second part of THE AMPLITUDE ATTITUDE : on what occasions is it possible for a given se...

In GRAPHICALLY ROMANTIC I said: I want to be very careful in evaluating what if any ways that the "long melodrama" strips of t...

This is not so much a follow-up to the first ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS essay  as to my recent myth-analysis of LOVE IN HELL -- reason being tha...

In the end, no matter what specific arguments I put forth, they boil down to the subjective feeling that BEAST [FROM 20,000 FATHOMS] only t...

In Part 1 I pointed out that even in stories of high mythicity, not all characters are given super-functional treatment, and that indeed eve...