THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

I've used my own term "escalation" twice on this blog for separate literary operations, though with the sense that they do con...

One more line of thought did indeed develop from my meditations here on the alignment of the four Fryean mythoi with my concepts of tonal g...

Here I'll be bringing my formulations in Part 1 and Part 2 into line with some of my observations regarding audience-conviction. In ...

In my review of Wally Wood's THE KING OF THE WORLD, I had to give some thought as to what Fryean mythos it fit. I alluded to the differ...

"[Leatherface] is never an object of pity per se, but is clearly not your standard masked maniac who delights in the torments of his v...

At the conclusion of PERSONAS OF GRATIFICATION I said: The great failing of Quiller-Couch's breakdown is that its arrangement sugges...

In the second paragraph of the Poetics Aristotle speaks of the differences in works of fiction which are caused by the different elevation...

At the beginning of the final section of GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW, I said that I had "discerned only two (though there may be more) unive...

Having arrived at a deductive conclusion as to the progression of the affect of identificatory conviction throughout the four mythoi, I shou...

From GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW PART 1: Taking the two statements together, it seems not unreasonable to hypothesize that in narrative ficti...

I established in Part 3 that Northrop Frye had dealt with the nature of protagonists’ power-of-action—henceforth called *dynamis*—purely in...