The Romantic Manifesto_ A Philosophy of Literature - Ayn Rand [88]
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
It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis), as novel of Naturalistic school with Romantic approach
Josephson, Matthew, as biographer of Victor Hugo
Karloff, Boris, movies of, as archetype of the Horror Story
Lady of the Camellias, The (Dumas fils), and imitations of
Lang, Fritz: as director ; his film Siegfried as best of Romantic movies
Language: as means of retaining concepts; function of, in converting abstractions into concretes
Les Misérables (Hugo): theme of; plot-theme of; characterizations in
Levin, Ira, the supernatural in writing of
Lewis, Sinclair: and his characterization of Babbitt; choice of subject by; style of; as writer of Naturalistic school
Libretto, its function in operas and operettas
Liszt, Franz, his musical composition St. Francis Walking on the Waters
Literary style: fundamental elements of; and choice of words; and choice of content; comparison of, in excerpts from two novels; as most complex aspect of literature, and as most revealing psychologically ; not an end in itself ; see also Style of novel
Literature: by what means it re-creates reality; its integration of concepts to percepts; as ruler and term-setter in movies and television; Aristotelian principle of esthetics of ; novel as major literary form; and mind-body dichotomy that plagues it ; and basic premises of Romanticism and Naturalism regarding existence of man’s volition; and rules of Classicism; “serious” and popular, and the Horror Story ; eclectic shambles of today’s; nonexistence of today, as vital cultural movement; and presentation of man, prior to 19th century; modern, essential nature of man as represented in ; modern,