THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE
Monday, November 24, 2025
THE READING RHEUM: HELL'S SALES MANAGER (1940)
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I could never attempt a "1001 myths" project with prose pulp magazines and their kindred, even though in many ways those periodi...
UP AND DOWN THE PATHOS PATH
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I proposed the theory of "gravity" and "levity" in 2012's GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW. This was one of my many attempts...
Sunday, November 23, 2025
TONE POETICS
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In the first installment of 2012's GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW, I sought to find some way to categorize the four literary mythoi of Northro...
Thursday, November 20, 2025
THE READING RHEUM: THE MYSTERY OF THE SINGING MUMMIES (1936)
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Though I'm a fan of (and maybe an apologist for) Sax Rohmer's works, I'd never visited either of the two "Yellow Peril pu...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
THE VIRTUES OF THE UNOBVIOUS PT. 3
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I offered a definition of tropes long ago, back in 2018, but the best breakdown is that tropes describe actions: "orphan must learn t...
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Monday, November 10, 2025
THE VIRTUES OF THE UNOBVIOUS PT. 2
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I didn't mention, in the course of Part 1 , that my use of the word "unobvious" was derived from a famous essay by George Orw...
Saturday, November 8, 2025
MYTHCOMICS: ["KAGOME'S HEART"] INU-YASHA (1998?)
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I won't devote any time in this essay to detailing the basic setup of Rumiko Takahashi's INU-YASHA serial. I outlined those basics ...
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