THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Another day, another messboard topic... ________ With respect to post-WWII gender roles, the first thing I think of is that when the war en...

I stated in the previous essay that on my two main review-blogs I had not devoted much space to any isophenomenal westerns, mythic or otherw...

The sort of "cosmos" I'm talking about in this essay is essentially the same as the word "mythos" as I've been u...

I concluded Part 1 by sketching out three primary story-tropes used by fictional characters to demonstrate self-mastery: (1) Combat betwee...

I return to the subject of the narrative-significant value-schism with respect to the ways in which a narrative value, such as that of the c...

Damnit, it's like eating heroin-laced potato chips. I go in to make one lousy post and I'm sucked in again. Noah Berlatsky conten...

In my essay THE LITTLE NEOPURITANS I wrote: ...I feel revolted by the base Werthamism that crops on some comics-fan boards when those f...

In keeping with my remarks in Part 1 , in this essay I'll deal strictly with some of the problematic aspects of Brittney-Jade Colangelo...

In SEITZ WARNING I goggled at Matt Zoller Seitz's notion that future superhero films should model themselves after the "spectrum of...