THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

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

 A stereotype, or stereotypical device, is identical to what I called a "simple variable"  in this essay . For my purposes a simpl...

 In this essay (and any follow-ups) I want to develop the line of thought in QUICK NUM NOTES .  As I said in NOTES, I'm not disavowing t...

 In the first  LEGENDS OF YESTERYEAR , I said: I won't pause at this time for a rigorous definition of what I mean by "legends,...

I've responded to the "anti-superhero" remarks of Martin Scorsese on this blog a couple of times. The first time , my basic co...

 In Part 1 of this essay-series, I noted that a lot of film critics have ample ways of authenticating the major developments both in genera...

 In 2019 Martin Scorsese said, in part: Many franchise films are made by people of considerable talent and artistry. You can see it on the s...

 In this 2015 essay I wrote: A stereotype, or stereotypical device, is identical to what I called a "simple variable"  in this ess...

I have to backtrack a little with regard to my statements here about Stephen King's take on Coleridge's "suspension of disbeli...

 I borrowed the phrase "Strength to Dream" from Colin Wilson's book of that title, but only for the basic felicity of the phra...

 Over the past month I've been contemplating the concept of consummation with respect to the insights I put forth in the 2020 essay SENS...

Because free variation is paramount in art, any observations that artists make about empirical contingencies prove secondary. Eugene O’Neill...

For horror fans. the name "Torture Garden" calls to mind a 1967 film-anthology that adapted a bunch of unrelated Robert Bloch terr...

 At the end of the previous essay I wrote: But the idea of codefinition has some interesting permutations for my notions of literature as a ...

  Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. --Mark Twain (or someone imitating him). The symmetry of form attain...

In response to some comments on this post on my movie-blog, I started thinking about Rudolf Otto again. Some time back I devoted over hal...