THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 I proposed the theory of "gravity" and "levity" in 2012's GRAVITY'S CROSSBOW.  This was one of my many attempts...

I don't have any plans to review THE DARK KNIGHT STRIKES AGAIN, Miller's 2001 follow-up to the 1986 DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. However...

Here's another one of my reworked forum-posts, beginning with a quote from my favorite literary critic, Northrop Frye: In melodram...

In a previous essay I won't trouble to track down, I wondered whether or not American "teen humor" comics had any potentia...

He Chaucer lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.-- Matthew Arnold. I seem to...

Looking through the seminal early MAD issues, one often finds a lot of clever puns and inversions of pop-culture tropes. However, the famous...

No one will mistake Shamneko's BECAUSE I'M THE GODDESS,  a short comedy-manga comprised of three collected books, as one of the ...

In future I may taper off on my assaults against HOODED UTILITARIAN after finishing ULTRALIBERAL LYNCH LAW.   But though I didn't bothe...

In GENDERIZATION GAP PT. 2 I observed that some, though not necessarily all, of the scathing responses directed at Janelle Asselin and othe...

In this essay , I expatiated at length on the association of the affect of  "cuteness" as it applied to, among other things, child...

Just as I read THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (covered in my previous post) in order to understand the origins of the later "uncanny" films...

Once again the spectre of sexual objectification rises up to disturb the innocent souls of Hollywood. It's been a week since Seth MacFa...

Finding common ground between two scholars one admires-- as I've noted I planned to do with Arthur Schopenhauer and Theodor Gaster-- off...

For the last week I've been meditating over the question, "Does sublimity (a.k.a. "the sense of wonder") occur in all fou...