THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

  If, in my previous writings on the rationales for metaphenomenal fantasy, I've given the impression that nonsense-fantasy was a new cr...

In  THREE WAYS TO BREAK OR BEND THE WORLD PT. 1 , I outlined the three principal ways authors rationalize their fictional departures from co...

...Calvino concluded that, although belief in the power of literature to promulgate a particular political doctrine was as deluded as the co...

  What do you suppose is the use of a child without meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more important than a ...

  By coincidence, this null-myth suffers from the same symbolic deficiency as the last one I reviewed here, WONDER WOMAN: WAR OF THE GODS.  ...