The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature

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

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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

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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)

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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, Gunter, Time quoted on Cat and Mouse of

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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

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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

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Josephson, Matthew, as biographer of Victor Hugo

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Karloff, Boris, movies of, as archetype of the Horror Story

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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 Miserables (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, return of, to art form of the chronicle ; as barometer of a culture ; selectivity of subject in, as cardinal aspect of; the ends and the means in, as worthy of each other; see also Fiction; Novel; Popular fiction; Thrillers

Logic: how its destruction made modern art possible

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