The Romantic Manifesto_ A Philosophy of Literature - Ayn Rand [92]
Serling, Rod, as Naturalist writer, and as Romanticist
Shakespeare, William: choice of subject by; as spiritual father of Naturalism
Siegfried (Fritz Lang), as best of Romantic movies
Sienkiewicz, Henryk: as writer of top-rank Romantic novel; and characterizations in Quo Vadis
“Slick-magazine” type of Romanticists
Soul: man as a being of self-made soul; art as the technology of
Spillane, Mickey: reasons for liking work of; style of, in One Lonely Night ; as top-rank writer of popular fiction; thrillers of
St. Francis Walking on the Waters (Liszt), a musical composition
Stage director: nature and demands of his role
Style of art work: as expression of view of man’s consciousness ; as product of artist’s psycho-epistemology ; response of man to; as most complex element of art ; and so-called “painterly” school; Cubism ; importance of, to artist and to reader or viewer; and psycho-epistemological sense of life
Style of novel: as a major attribute ; as means by which other attributes are presented; comparison of, in excerpts from two novels; see also Literary style
Stylization, see Selectivity
Subject of art work: as expression of view of man’s existence ; artist’s choice of ; and projection of view of man’s place in universe ; selectivity in, as cardinal aspect of art
Sullivan, Louis H., principle of architecture of
Symbolism of primitive terror in presentation of man
Tap dancing
Television: physical action in dramas of; and Romanticism ; The Twilight Zone, series on; The Avengers, British series on
Theater: legitimate vs. illegitimate innovations in
Theme of art work, as link uniting subject and style
Theme of novel: as essential attribute; purpose of novel defined by; presented in terms of action; as core of its abstract meaning; and top-rank Romantic novelists ; and second rank of Romantic novelists; and popular fiction; in modern literature
Thrillers: “tongue-in-cheek,” ; as detective, spy, or adventure stories ; conflict as basic characteristic of; as simplified version of Romantic literature; relation of, to novels of serious Romantic literature ; humor in “tongue-in-cheek” thrillers ; social status of, and gulf between the people and their alleged intellectual leaders; modern intellectuals’ rush to the bandwagon of; as dramatization of abstraction of moral conflict; as spectacle of man’s efficacy ; and ultimate triumph of the good
Tolstoy, Leo: choice of subject by; evaluating work of; as Naturalist writer
Twilight Zone, The, series on TV, as symbolic projection of remnants of Romanticism
Value-judgments, metaphysical: as foundation of moral values; of artist, and selective re-creation of reality ; as base of ethics ; derived from an explicit metaphysics
Values: conflicts of; art as concretization of; primacy of, brought to art by Romanticists; common-sense values distinguished from conventional; moral, child’s learning concept of
Venus de Milo
Vermeer, Jan: choice of subject by; style of
Verne, Jules, as writer of science fiction
Victor Hugo (Josephson), appraisal of Ninety-Three in
“Violence Can be Fun,” article in TV Guide on The Avengers, quoted
Volition: man’s possession of, as premise of Romanticism ; man as not possessed of, as premise of Naturalism ; and importance of establishing as function of man’s rational faculty; confusion on, between esthetic Romanticists and “Romantic” philosophers; full commitment to premise of, by Romantic writers; commitment to premise of, by writers in regard to existence but not to consciousness ; commitment to premise of, by writers in regard to consciousness but not to existence
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe), style of
Wells, H. G., as writer of science fiction
Wolfe, Thomas: style of; in The Web and the Rock
Zen Buddhists, sense of life achieved