THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 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...

The “longer formulation” of quantum literary theory that I mentioned in Part 1 represents an attempt to apply the insights regarding the ma...

One of my title words sounds like the name of an Image superhero, and the other sounds like it might as well be one. But these are, for the...

In ROBINSON, CRUSADER OF MEDIOCRITY PT.2, I detailed some of the problems with which I’d grappled in terms of assigning ROBINSON CRUSOE its...

My application of the “killing stroke” trope to the combative mode may serve me in formulating an answer to one long and nagging theoret...

I’ve only devoted three essays to the concepts of interiorization and exteriorization, but it seems to me that the concept of self-mastery ...

GIVE-AND-TAKE VS. THE KILLING STROKE proposed that these two tropes provided the principal narrative strategies through which authors have...

In Part 1 , I concluded the essay with these words: In the case of the kinetic phenomenality, the operation of concrescence depends on br...

I concluded Part 1 by sketching out three primary story-tropes used by fictional characters to demonstrate self-mastery: (1) Combat betwee...

I've recently hunted through past posts and added the tag "self-mastery" to any post where I used the Nietzschean term "s...

In the first two sections of this intermittent essay-series, I argued with myself that the "significant values" of a given work, o...

At the end of the second part of HOW WEAK IS TOO WEAK , I said: In a future essay I'll develop further the notion that leadership som...

This will be one of my least theoretical pieces, since I've pretty much laid down, in the first HOW WEAK IS TOO WEAK, my rationale as t...