THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

My title references an essay by snob-critic Edmund Wilson, who sneered at THE LORD OF THE RINGS with a snotty essay, "Oo, Those Awful O...

  "Challenge of the Giant Fireflies" is not one of writer Gardner Fox's better titles, though he might have emphasized the inc...

Originally this essay was meant to build on my distinction between problems and conundrums. In my September 2023 post  WHAT VS. HOW , I gave...

...Calvino concluded that, although belief in the power of literature to promulgate a particular political doctrine was as deluded as the co...

 One key notion I argued in the cited essay was the importance of epistemological patterns to the process of concrescence in fiction. It...

 As I started the prologue of the 2007 film criticism book HITCHCOCK AND PHILOSOPHY, I encountered this justification of the book's prem...

I've now finished the remainder of Stuart A. Kaufman's INVESTIGATIONS. To be sure, I had to skip most of the heavily statistical stu...

Whereas empirical thinking is essentially directed toward establishing an unequivocal relation between  specific  "causes" and  s...

From the first posts on this blog, I've asserted a commonality, though not an absolute identity, between religious myth and all later fo...