Ayn Rand: The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature

Astaire, Fred

Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand): theme of; plot-theme of; quoted on conventional view of morality; quoted on man as a being of self-made soul

Avengers, The, successful British TV series

Ballet: as a system of dance ; essentials of its image of man; “modernization” of

Balzac, Honoré de, as Naturalist writer

Benefield, Barry, as popular-fiction writer

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), characterization in

Brown, Fredric, science fiction writing of

Byron, Lord, and “Byronic” view of existence

Camille (Dumas fils ), and imitations of

Capitalism: destruction of, in politics; 19th-century Romanticists as enemies of

Cat and Mosue (Günter Grass), Time quoted on

Characterization in novel: as essential attribute ; definition of; extreme degree of selectivity required in; achieved by action and dialogue; error of asserting nature of characters in narrative passages without supporting action; and portrayal of essential traits of personality ; and revelation of motivation; consistency as a major requirement of; maintaining inner logic of; and faculty of volition; and Romantic novelists ; and popular fiction; and the Naturalists

Chayefsky, Paddy, and modern Naturalist work Marty

Child’s development: of moral sense of life; contribution of Romantic art to; of cognitive and normative abstractions ; and imposition of set of rules by conventional morality ; learning concept of moral values; and sins of adults in regard to child’s understanding of morality; dichotomy in consciousness of the practical versus the moral

Choreographer: nature and demands of his role

Chronicle: characteristics of ; return of modern literature to art form of

Classicism: Romanticism as rebellion against; rules of, as improper criteria of esthetic value; school of, improperly regarded as representative of reason

Cognitive faculty: as determining the proper forms of art

Collectivism: resurgence of, and effect of, on Romanticism ; advocacy of, by today’s estheticians and intellectuals ; altruistic, today’s culture as dominated by

Color harmony: a legitimate element in painting

“Color symphonies”: as anti-art

Concepts, nature and function of

Conceptual consciousness: disintegration of, as the goal of modern art

Connery, Sean, performance of, in Dr. No

Consciousness: of man, art as serving a need of; art as confirming or denying efficacy of; integrating mechanism of, and sense of life; as soul; and faculty of volition ; concern of top-rank Romantic writers with

Creative process, a short story by Ayn Rand as illustrative of nature of

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), motivation revealed in

Cubism

Culture: art as mirror of a culture’s philosophy ; art as barometer of ; state of, and today’s art

Dali, Salvador, style of

Dance: as a performing art ; as system of motion expressing a metaphysical view of man; its relation to music

Decorative arts: their nature and proper task

Definitions: as guardians of rationality

Determinism: philosophical and esthetic contradictions in; philosophy dominated by doctrine of; as basic premise of writers’ presentation of man prior to 19th century

Diatonic scale: development of

Dr. No (Fleming)

Don Carlos (Schiller)

Dostoevsky, Feodor: choice of subject by; reasons for liking work of; as master of integration of theme and plot structure; and use of motivation in Crime and Punishment ; as top-rank Romantic novelist ; characterizations in novels of

Dramatic arts: subcategories of; importance of the play; director as integrator

Dreiser, Theodore, and a bad novel

Dumas, Alexander, as Romantic novelist

Emotional abstractions ; and individual’s view of himself; “important to me” as criterion of selection in

Epistemology: of physical sciences and of humanities; man’s need of; as abstract base of ethics ; see also Psycho-epistemology

Esthetics: Objectivist; criteria of judgment in; as branch of philosophy ; principles of; of literature, Aristotelian principle of; destruction of Romanticism in; field of, and mysticism; Romanticism in, as unrelated to theories of “Romantic” philosophers; state of, today, and prospects for philosophical Renaissance ; vacuum in, of our age

Ethics: as normative science ; link between metaphysics and; and artist’s conceptual theory of; place of, in work of art dependent on metaphysical views of artist ; metaphysical value-judgments as base of; man’s need of; destruction of individualism in; need of Western culture for a new code of ; epistemology, as abstract base of; relation of, to art; teaching as task of

Existentialists: philosophical view of existence of; sense of life achieved by

Ferber, Edna, as popular-fiction writer

Fiction: and identification of reader with characters in ; difference between real-life news story and ; four essential attributes of; and history, difference between representations of; integration of theme and plot as cardinal principle of; motivation as a key-concept in; see also Novel; Popular fiction

Film directors: Fritz Lang’s work

Flaubert, Gustave, style of

Fleming, Ian: as top-rank writer of popular fiction ; thrillers of

Fountainhead, The (Ayn Rand): character of Howard Roark in; Gail Wynand’s conflict of values in ; two scenes from, as illustration of process of characterization; example from, of Classicism surviving into 20th century ; quotation from; quoted on meaning of art in man’s life; “The explanation rests,” paraphrase of quotation from

From Russia with Love (Fleming)

Goldfinger (Fleming)

Gone With the Wind (Mitchell): theme of; plot-theme of

Goya, Francisco de, choice of subject by

Grand Guignol of old French theater

Grass, Günter, Time quoted on Cat and Mouse of

Hamilton, Donald, as top-rank writer of popular fiction

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, as writer of top-rank Romantic novel

Helmholtz, Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von: on mathematical nature of musical perception; on major and minor keys

Henry, O., as great Romantic writer

Hindu dance: its image of man

Hippies: as products of “Progressive” education; their reversion to the music of the jungle

Hitchcock, Alfred

Horror Story, in “serious” and popular fiction

Hugo, Victor: choice of subject by; style of, as blend of reason and passionate emotion; reasons for liking work of; as master of integration of theme and plot structure ; historical essays interrupting stories of; universe of, contrasted with Schopenhauer’s; as top-rank Romantic novelist ; characterizations in novels of ; introduction by Ayn Rand to his Ninety-Three ; rediscovering novels of ; as greatest novelist in world literature; intellectual first-aid kit for reading and appreciation of ; and conflict in his sense of life; the thinker, as archetypical of the virtues and fatal errors of 19th century; novels of, as experience for the reader

Humor, in “tongue-in-cheek” thrillers

Hurst, Fannie, as popular-fiction writer

Identity, Law of: man’s need of definitions as resting on

Impressionists, their work contrasted with Vermeer’s

Industrial Revolution

Integration: as psycho-epistemological key to reason

Irrationalism: philosophy dominated by doctrine of ; sense of life achieved by apostles of