THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Though I've made distinctions elsewhere on the blog as to the theoretical nature of monsters and villains in terms of the goal-affects ...

 In Part 1 , I advanced my new concept that iconicity, the nature of fictional icons, stemmed from two factors: activity, what the icons do,...

 In 2020's OUT WITH THE BAD WILL, IN WITH THE GOOD PT. 3,  I formulated an assortment of tropes that described ways in which the four pe...

This post follows up on one made about a year and a half ago, wherein I made a point with which I no longer agree.  Shortly after I re-defin...

  In this essay I wrote: MONSTERS VS. ALIENS does not qualify as any kind of crossover, though it is a "mashup," in which diverse...

I may be dovetailing two subjects with only a loose relationship, since my acceptance of the Whitehead term "prehension" ( as expl...

  Most of my considerations on “persona-types” follow the broad patterns laid down in archaic societies, where a character is “good” if his ...

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

About two years ago, in this essay , I rendered this judgment on the A&E series BATES MOTEL: Not until 2013, with the premiere of the...

In my recent examination of the 1950s "Grave Rehearsal, " I brought forth once more my narratological concern with the "dance...

In the previous incarnations of this line of thought, I've been writing about the many ways in which authors might "finagle" t...

Repeating my end point from Part 2,  I'll assert that in general one cannot have a "monster rally" if one has just one type o...

One reason that I've devoted a fair deal of space to the topic of * centricity ,* or any of the other synonyms I've used for it over...

I've been giving a little thought recently to the concepts of "monster rallies" and "villain rallies," and how often...