By Matthew
I’ve been reading through Lewis’ The Problem of Pain and the bells started to ring when reading the chapter on Hell.

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by Matthew
I’ve been listening to my BBC LOTR and have been enjoying the adaption. Its interesting to me how different people have made the story fit into their production’s available time. Listening to this has made me more tolerant of changes that need to be made to fit the story in. I [...]

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by Dave,
I give a presentation at the College English Association in a couple of weeks discussing storytelling in relationship to videogames. In all my reading for this, one book I’m focusing on is by Marie-Laure Ryan, titled Narrative as Virtual Reality. In one part of her book, she begins discussing how immersive a [...]

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by Dave
A standard literary trope is to set characters against each other, playing one’s personna in relationship to another. Typically, we find the “arch”-nemesis, especially in adventure or heroic stories. The main character is opposed by a primary antagonist, and the juxtaposition of these characters reveals something about one or both to the [...]

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by Travis
Rowling rarely mentions Tolkien, but I’ve found in the process of writing my book that she has far more in common with him than I had previously realized. Chalk it up to the Cauldron of Story (which is precisely what I do, actually….) In the recent interview for El Pais, translated (with [...]

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By Matthew
Results:
What upcoming movie are you most looking forward to?
 

The Half-Blood Prince (49%)
Prince Caspian (15%)
The Hobbit (12%)

The Dark Knight (10%)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (6%)
X-Files 2 (2%)
The Screwtape Letters (2%)
Avatar (Last Airbender- M. Night Shaymalan) (2%)
Avatar (James Cameron director) (1%)
Halo (Directed by Peter Jackson) (1%)
Iron Man (0%)

Total Votes: 164
 
No surprises [...]

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by Dave
Harry is a hero. That Harry Potter draws from long established literary heroic traditions is well documented. Nearly every book length treatment or anthology concerning the series addresses this subject and examines the link between Harry’s more traditional literary roots in alchemical and mythic-heroic traditions and his postmodern deconstruction of the hero [...]

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