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
Manifesto, dictionary definition of
Mann, Thomas, and a bad novel
Maurois, Andre, 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
Michelangelo, choice of subject by; his
Mind, man’s: current assaults on
Mitchell, Margaret, and plot structure in
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
Novel: essential attributes of ; theme of ; plot of ; characterization of ; style of; as major literary form; shortcomings resulting in a bad novel; as recreation of reality; plot-theme of; and integration of major attributes of; top-rank Romantic novelists; second-rank Romantic novelists ; relation of thrillers to novels of serious Romantic literature; Victor Hugo as greatest novelist in world literature; and start and culmination of illustrious line of Romantic novelists in 19th century; and the Naturalist;
Objectivism:
O’Hara, John: style of; as best of Naturalism’s contemporary survivors
O’Neill, Eugene, as imitator of Dumas
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
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
