THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
ADDENDA TO "HEROES VS. HORRORS"
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After I posted in "H vs. H" that the earliest "villain rally" known to me was in STAR-SPANGLED COMICS #7 (1942), I had t...
Friday, November 7, 2008
HEROES VS. HORRORS: THE FINAL CONFLICT!
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Over at The Groovy Age of Horror Curt Purcell just finished the third of three posts on the concept of "monster rallies" in horro...
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
A MOVEABLE FEASTER, PART 2
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Back in my essay "Archetypal Library" I was groping for a basic example that "could distinguish the mythopoeic literary funct...
Friday, October 31, 2008
A MOVEABLE FEASTER
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As it's Halloween today, mad critics must go the extra mile to do what both they and mad scientists do on a regular basis: take somethin...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
QUOTE FOR THE YEAR
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As long as I'm reading Murdoch, I may as well quote her slam against what I've called the naive positivists: "Of course there a...
Friday, October 24, 2008
ID-IOT'S DEMISE
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Right away let me lay down my prejudices regarding villains. In the annals of popular literature (which automatically disincludes anyt...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE STORM
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I mentioned in the essay "Myths of Sociology" that I have a problem with thinkers who reduce every aspect of mankind to sociologic...
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