The Romantic Manifesto_ A Philosophy of Literature - Ayn Rand [89]
Logic: how its destruction made modern art possible
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), as bad novel
Maibaum, Richard, quoted on screenplays of Fleming’s novels
Man: as a being of self-made soul; and his need of philosophy; art as his psycho-epistemological conditioner; as an end in himself
Man Who Laughs, The (Hugo), characterization in
Manifesto, dictionary definition of
Mann, Thomas, and a bad novel
Marguerite and Armand (ballet)
Marty (Chayefsky), as work of modern Naturalism
Maurois, André, as biographer of Victor Hugo
Metaphysics: link between ethics and ; as science dealing with fundamental nature of reality ; and value-judgments; art as concretization of ; man’s need of ; of artist, and subject of his art work; of Naturalism ; music and dance as expressive of metaphysical view
Metaphysics in Marble (Sures), magazine article
Michelangelo, choice of subject by; his Pieta‘
Mind, man’s: current assaults on
Mitchell, Margaret, and plot structure in Gone With the Wind
Modern art: disintegration of man’s consciousness as goal of; its practitioners and admirers; as demonstration of cultural bankruptcy of our age; and composite picture of man; and presentation of emotions dominating modern man’s sense of life; and moral implications of trend toward lower levels of depravity in
Modern dance, characterized as neither modern nor dance
Modern philosophy, as source and sponsor of modern art
Moral sense of life: development of, in child; contribution of Romantic art to developing of ; and morality, differentiation between ; sins of adults toward child in developing of
Moral treason, and art
Morality: and moral sense of life, differentiation between ; and imposition of set of rules on the developing child; as a normative science ; mystical, social, subjective schools of
Motion pictures: role of literature and visual arts in ; work of Fritz Lang as director; reason for failure to develop as great art
Motivation, as a key-concept in psychology and in fiction
Movies, and Romanticism
Music: distinguished from other arts; pattern from musical perception to emotional response; psycho-epistemological nature of man’s response to ; role of sense of life in the response to ; hypothesis as to how and why it evokes emotions; mathematical nature of musical perception; metaphysical factors in enjoyment of; effects on mind of primitive and Oriental types; so-called “modern,” why it is not music; as related to the various performing arts
Mysticism: primitive epistemology of; and esthetics ; of Plato, resurgence of, in later part of 19th century, and effect of on Romanticism
Myths of religion
Naturalism: and anti-value orientation in work of art ; type of argument in evaluating work of art; and objection to plot of novel as artificial contrivance ; and denial of existence of man’s faculty of volition ; and assumption of mantle of reason and reality; disintegration of; Shakespeare as spiritual father of; journalistic approach of Naturalist writers; and substitution of statistics for standard of value ; and element of characterization ; final remnants of, with nothing to say about human existence ; Romanticism outlasted by; value in a Naturalist’s work and in a Romanticist’s; and imitator’s; and end of, with WW II; as man’s new enemy in art in later part of 19th century ; as dedicated to negation of art; and substitution of the collective for the objective; basic metaphysical premise of; doctrines of literary school of; and “compassionate” studies of depravity
Ninety-Three (Hugo): Introduction to, by Ayn Rand ; as uniquely “Hugo-esque,”; appraisal by two of Hugo’s biographers of; man’s loyalty to values as theme of; characterization in ; and integration of theme and plot; grandeur as leitmotif of
Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo), characterization in
Novel: essential attributes of ; theme of ; plot of ; characterization