Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Nature and Nurture: Character and Setting as Destiny

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copyright 2007 by Gary L. Pullman Why did you throw the jack of hearts away? It was the only card in the deck I had left to play. -- ...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Bond, James Bond: A Lesson Concerning the "Inversions and Variations" of a Plot Formula

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman James Bond, as Ian Fleming envisioned him.  Note : In this and a the two previous posts, I...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Oddities' Horror

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman   Eyes with vertical slits for pupils. Red irises. A third eye. Eyes in the back of one’s head. Eyes ins...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Discerning Meaning, or The Theme of the Story

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman One of the skills that we learn fairly early in our academic careers is how to spot the key idea of a pass...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Stock Situations Useful to Horror Fiction

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L.Pullman Oral storytellers invented stock situations--sets of circumstances that could be used over and over again, ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

The Monster’s Lair: Setting As Psychology

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman The monster’s lair is the antithesis of home sweet home. It is the home turned inside out and upside down....
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Characterization via Emotion

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Characterization operates by means of depicting emotion. Literary characters are, in fact, embodiments of ...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Value of Literature

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Fiction begins with empathy, as a writer imagines what it would be like to be another individual. He or sh...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Revisiting the Numinous

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Through images and emblems associated with a vanished craft or practice, a writer of fantasy or horror fi...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In the 1960’s, the X-Men trained in the Danger Room. A spacious chamber in their mansion, it was full of...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Paradise, Heroism, and the Eternal Return: A Formula for Both Myth and Horror

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Much of the argument and many of the insights that Paul Nathanson shares with readers of his Over the Rain...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Home and the Lair, or Heaven and Hell

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Beowulf and his men prepare to ambush Grendel when he attacks Heorot. There are only two ways for, or directions of, action: inner and outer...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Hell on Earth

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In previous posts, we argued that horror fiction is about the survival of loss and that the monsters it fe...