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The processes of myth-creation rely on a crossover between reality and imagination. A collective psychological space  exists in which history and myth merge and become indistinguishable from one another.  In the heyday of the television western, for instance, how many young children were aware there was any difference in status between historical characters such as Read more

Wonder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins) was screened on TV the day after I happened to be reading the first part of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, her finely honed analysis of the cultural perception of womanhood. I knew there existed ample literature on the cultural and feminist significance of the Wonder Woman character[1] but Read more

Stooped as loving memory some old gravestones stoop. In that old graveyard. Names gone and when to when. Once hooked, always will be, on these writings of Samuel Beckett. On. Sometimes referred to as “novels,” Beckett’s three later works, Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) and Worstward Ho (1983) might be better thought of Read more