THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 I gave this oddball quasi-novel a second read after having buzzed through it years ago. I tried this time to take notes about some of the h...

I've heard various HPL stories described as being "his most Poe-like." Though it's true that Poe is probably HPL's gre...

 In WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION, Schopenhauer distinguishes between "intuitive" and "abstract" representations: hum...

The main reason I devoted time to sussing out "the two escalations"  was because the earlier-conceived term bears on my also sussi...

Though the terms “challenger and defender” are patterned on the idea of physical conflict, they can be applied to any number of narrat...

Poe was such a pivotal figure in the development of modern-day metaphenomenal literature that I devoted several essays on my companion-blog ...

Back in March 2014 I was deeply involved in sussing out metaphors for my conception of intelligibility. In the essay RIDDLE, MYSTERY, ENIGMA...

The aforementioned CLASSIC HORROR post came about when a poster mentioned this essay on the blog GOTHIC WANDERER , wherein author Tyler Tich...

I've just written a very brief exploration of Poe's PIT AND THE PENDULUM, but wanted to expand on the subject on my theory-blog to ...

At the end of PART 1 I stated that I would investigate a particular archetypal trope, that of the "birth-mystery plot," across the...

A few refinements to what I wrote in Part 1 : I stated that "...no matter what sort of viewpoint character the author may choose, he ...

In this essay I began my current set of essays on the interlinked topics of sublimity and transcendence in reaction to the outlook dominant...

“The fantastic in literature doesn’t exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of r...

“It was this unfathomable longing of my soul to vex itself—to offer violence to its own nature—to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only—that ...