Tag Archives: myth

Pirates, Privateers, and the Contested Gulf: Maritime Predation off Tampa Bay (1700s–1820s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines maritime predation in the Gulf waters off Tampa Bay across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and it does so with a deliberate methodological aim: to separate what the documentary record supports from what later civic … Continue reading →

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The “Seven Pieces of Iran” Map as Geopolitical Myth: A Structural Critique

Posted on March 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines and critiques the “seven pieces of Iran” cartographic scenario — a recurring geopolitical proposition that imagines the fragmentation of the Iranian state into a series of ethnically defined successor states corresponding to its major peripheral communities … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Hero’s Journey and the Crisis of the Contemporary Heroine

Posted on October 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper explores the widening gap between Joseph Campbell’s classical hero’s journey and the dominant “heroine’s journey” narratives found in modern media. Once heralded as a corrective to patriarchal myth, the contemporary heroine’s journey has increasingly failed to … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony

Posted on September 23, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, by Roberto Calasso If Roberto Calasso’s writings inspired the work of ambition that is Foucault’s Pendulum, then Calasso deserved to be ruthlessly skewered as the book’s clueless protagonist.  It is not right to say … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson And The Olympians #5)

Posted on August 28, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson And The Olympians #5), by Rick Riordan This book’s title expresses a nice sentiment.  The Last Olympian refers to Hestia, the guardian of the hearth, who is often forgotten in this series and in general … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Lost Hero (The Heroes Of Olympus #1)

Posted on August 28, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Lost Hero (The Heroes Of Olympus #1), by Rick Riordan There is an essential problem with this book that suggests that Riordan has not learned the lesson of his problems in previous volumes, showing that while he can write … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson & The Olympians #3)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson & The Olympians #3), by Rick Riordan When ordering this book and a couple of others from the library, I was unaware that this book was out of sequence from the first book of the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Lightning Thief (Percy & The Olympians #1)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Lightning Thief (Percy & The Olympians #1), by Rick Riordan, illutrated by John Rocco It’s hard to see why this book got enough hype in order to have a failed movie series based on it.  This is not a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Origins Of Tolkien’s Middle-earth For Dummies

Posted on May 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Origins Of Tolkien’s Middle-earth For Dummies, by Greg Harvey As someone who has read a few books in this particular series [1], and other series like it, I often ponder whether such a book like this is necessary.  I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Till We Have Faces

Posted on February 1, 2019 by nathanalbright

Till We Have Faces:  A Novel Of Cupid And Psyche, by C.S. Lewis This is a complicated piece of late fiction by C.S. Lewis and reading it, it is not surprising that such a nuanced work would be his least … Continue reading →

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