THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

I just reread Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451 and noticed an interesting correlation between one of Bradbury's justifications of books...

 This essay exists for the most part to draw a line between both 2013's THE NARRATIVE RULE OF EXCESS  and its corollary from 2017, EXCES...

 'density is the means by which the reader subconsciously rates one creator above another: because the reader believes that Creator A ca...

I haven't written much if anything since 2017 about "density," when in the essay  GOOD WILL QUANTUMS,  I extrapolated a brief ...

I didn't follow the early 1990s Valiant line with any regularity. Thus I was unaware of an attempted reboot of the Valiant universe ...

Though I don't repudiate anything I wrote in Part 3 , it does occur to me that an attempt to describe the virtue of simplicity ought to ...

In GOOD WILL QUANTUMS PT. 2 I said: But although "density/complexity" is the primary criterion of fictional excellence in any ...

I gave one definition of the word "potentiality" in  Part One , but I was unaware when I gave the term a Jungian-Fryean connotati...

I preface the discussion referenced in the last post with another citation of my definition of the four potentialities: The KINETIC is ...

For the most part, whenever I've used the term "complexity" on this blog since its beginning in 2007, I've been referring ...

In order to explain why I'm choosing to devote a lot of space to one essay in Raymond Durgnat's 1967 collection in FILMS AND FEELING...