The Romantic Manifesto_ A Philosophy of Literature - Ayn Rand [90]
Objectivism: passim
Objectivist, The, magazine
O’Hara, John: style of; as best of Naturalism’s contemporary survivors
Olympio ou la Vie de Victor Hugo (Maurois), appraisal of Ninety-Three in
One Lonely Night (Spillane), style of
O’Neill, Eugene, as imitator of Dumas fils, in Anna Christie
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (Helmholtz)
Opera, function of music and libretto in
Oriental music Painting: distinguished from other arts; role of sensory and conceptual factors in; color harmony in
Pantomine: dance distinguished from; classified as non-art
Performing artist: his task ; basic principles applicable to
Performing arts: relation to primary arts psycho-epistemological role of; application of basic artistic principles to inversion of ends and means in
Philosophy: as determinant of trends of world; of life, and full conceptual control; and setting of criteria of emotional integrations ; man’s need of; of man, as chosen by his mind or by chance; love as expression of; of artist, truth or falsehood of; and art, relationship between ; its practical importance ; the consequences of default in; Aristotle’s esthetics of literature ; modern, as swamp breeding ground of aborted art; dominated by doctrines of irrationalism and determinism ; since Renaissance, retrogression of, to mysticism of Plato; Romantic movement in, as unrelated to Romanticism in esthetics; new schools of, as progressively dedicated to negation of; antirational, and emotions dominating modern man’s sense of life
Photography: as not an art
Pieta‘ (Michelangelo)
Plot of novel: as essential attribute ; definition of; as dramatization of goal-directed action ; Naturalists’ objection to, as artificial contrivance ; and presentation of conflict of values; serving same function as steel skeleton of skyscraper; and events, as expressing meaning of novel; as not represented by physical action divorced from ideas and values; and premise of man’s possession of faculty of volition; plotlessness, and premise of man’s lack of volition; and antagonism of today’s esthetic spokesmen toward Romantic premise in; and top-rank Romantic novelists; and second rank of Romantic novelists ; and popular fiction; and imitators of Romanticists
Plot-theme of novel ; as core of its events ; and top-rank Romantic novelists
Poe, Edgar Allan, as modern ancestor of the Horror Story
Poem, basic attributes of
Popular fiction: common-sense ideas and values as base of; and absence of explicitly ideational element ; categories of ; contemporary examples of best writers of; characteristics of writing below top level of; “slick-magazine” type of ; and the Horror Story
Possessed, The (Dostoevsky), characterization in
Primitive music
“Progressive” education, hippies as products of
Psycho-epistemology: definition of; in art as illustrated by characterization in literature; and concretization of cognitive abstractions ; and concretization of normative abstractions; and metaphysical views of artist ; and process of communication between artist and viewer or reader; of artist, and style of his art work; role of in man’s musical responses ; art as the conditioner of; consonant with reality and man’s nature
Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz): as top-rank Romantic novel ; characterizations in
Rand, Ayn: hypothesis on nature of man’s response to music; favorite form of dance; goal of writing of; projection of an ideal man as motive and purpose ; portrayal of a moral ideal as end in itself ; what is not the purpose of; and irrelevancy of questions about primacy of the novelist