The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition (Signet Shakespeare)
In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has...
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In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important achievements of our time.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451149169 (0451149165)
ASIN: 451149165
Publish date: October 1st 1971
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Literature,
Cultural,
Art,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Russia
I know a lot of people sneer at Ayn Rand and her admirers. But one would think the one thing they'd acknowledge is that she was a writer who knew how to tell a story. *thinks of reviews she's seen.* OK, maybe not. But even if I'm not an uncritical devotee, I for one do love her style, do, with some ...
Part IIII of multi-part review series.Nutshell: person who has read a half dozen novels and no literary theory writes treatise on literary theory.Opens with an dictionary definition of manifesto, regarding a declaration of intentions by an organization, then promptly states that this manifesto is ...
Explains Ayn Rand's views on art, which of course are in sync with her philosophy, Objectivism. Since I am long out of my Rand phase (age 20), I wouldn't read it again.
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