THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  Arguably a lot more uncanny narratives invoke passive potency than do marvelous ones...-- ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ANOMALIES PT 2. Aesop's f...

 I encountered the word "anomaly" used as a literary term in a book I referenced here : “Status quo” science fiction. . . opens wi...

 My December review of the comedy-western LEGEND OF FRENCHIE KING  caused me to knock down some of my old mental dominoes and set them up in...

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...-- Winston Churchill (or maybe his sp...

In Part I , I said: Lewis does not reference concepts of causality. I've interpolated these, drawing on influences ranging from Cass...

In STRENGTH, IN NUMBERS   I made this generalization about the corpus of stories within the famous folktale-collection Grimms' Fairy Tal...

"For poetry differs from reality by the fact that in it life flows past us, interesting and yet painless ; while in reality, on the co...

“The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday reality.”—Roger ...

Even as I created a simple resource to deal with Dwight Swain's notion of the "focal character," here I'm creating a resou...