THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

The overall conclusion of last month's EVIL, BE THOU OUR GOOD series was my affirmation that the elements of "play for play's s...

 So in the previous two installments of this essay-series, I've addressed AT-AT Pilot's essential question. "Is it possible for...

In Part 1 , I stated that Northrop Frye wasn't an influence on my own literary theories of "work and play," but George Bataill...

As I begin this post, I'm not sure how many parts this essay-series will run. Meditations on the nature of evil tend to lead anyone down...

 The main deficiency of my "realism/escapism" dichotomy mentioned at the conclusion of Part One  can be found in this sentence fro...

One of the CBR threads informed me of this VOX article discussing the interactions of utilitarian philosophy and "deonotological philo...

Just another statement of general principles re: the Confederacy on some forum... ____________ Neither the Union nor the Confederacy was...

Every Thou in the world is by its nature fated to become a thing, or continually re-enter into the condition of things. In objective speech...

A few years back I did an overview on all of the Charlton BLUE BEETLE stories created by Steve Ditko for the fan-magazine CHARLTON SPOTL...

I've argued in JOINED AT THE TRIP PT. 4  that the proper analysis of all literary stories, realistic or escapist, cannot be judged purel...

Whenever you hear a public discussion of comic books, you will hear sooner or later an advocate of the industry say with a triumphant smile,...

I've noticed, in my process of responding to Noah Berlatsky, that in several essays he has asserted that superhero narratives conflate g...

In speaking of an "ethic" with respect to any literary formulation, as with my "mode of the combative," it's necessa...

The title of this 2-part essay, obviously indebted to the Conrad novel, should put a particular complexion on the word "outcast." ...