THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Technically, "eminence" and "stature" are the same words with which I characterize the significant value of centricity i...

 I saw FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS yesterday, and prior to crafting a review for the movie-blog I decided to mediate on why I found myself l...

 At the end of A CROSSOVER MISCELLANY PART 2  I said I would next discuss "non-distinct replacements," but a better term would be ...

  In my essay AND THE HALF-TRUTH SHALLSET YOU FREE , I noted one of the vital distinctions between philosophy and literature: that philosop...

Over the years, as I’ve researched the evolution of fantasy-concepts in prose fiction—with special attention to their sign...

I don't consider "the Time Traveler" to be the star of Wells' TIME MACHINE, and from one standpoint I might teem "ti...

In my 2017 essay TREES, MEET FOREST (GOD),  I wrote about the problems of focal presence in H.G. Well's TIME MACHINE: I don't con...

H.G. Wells' 1897 WAR OF THE WORLDS novel spawned countless "BEM-chases-babes" stories along the lines of this image from INVAS...

I've written a few times about the difficulties of sussing out a focal presence when the narrative "will" seems to be focused ...

It's scarcely a coincidence that in my review of TRASHMAN LIVES I asserted that it was less symbolically complex than many contempor...

A few refinements to what I wrote in Part 1 : I stated that "...no matter what sort of viewpoint character the author may choose, he ...

To demand of strength that it should  not  express itself, that it should  not  be a will to overcome, overthrow, dominate, a thirst for en...

In Part 2 I drew comparisons between H.G. Wells-- at least as he was when he wrote THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME in 1933-- and that modern sp...