Essays on Ayn Rand's the Fountainhead

by Mayhew, Robert; Bayer, B John; Berliner, Michael S.; Bernstein, Andrew; Boeckmann, Tore; Britting, Jeff; Ghate, Onkar; Milgram, Shoshana; Peikoff, Amy; Ralston, Richard; Schein, Dina; Smith, Tara; Peikoff, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780739115770
• ISBN10: 0739115774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this unique study of The Fountainhead, Dr. Robert Mayhew brings together historical, literary, and philosophical essays that analyze the novel's style, its use of humor, and its virtues of productivity, independence, and integrity. The essays make extensive use of previously unpublished material from the Ayn Rand Archives, offering a new collection of material to explore and consider.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Bibliographical Note	p. xiii
The History of The Fountainhead
The fountainhead from Notebook to Novel: The Composition of Ayn Rand's First Ideal Man	p. 3
Howard Roark and Frank Lloyd Wright	p. 41
Publishing The Fountainhead	p. 65
The Fountainhead Reviews	p. 77
Adapting The Fountainhead to Film	p. 87
The Fountainhead as Literature and as Philosophy
The Fountainhead as a Romantic Novel	p. 119
What Might Be and Ought to Be: Aristotle's Poetics and The Fountainhead	p. 155
Three Inspirations for the Ideal Man: Cyrus Paltons, Enjolras, and Cyrano de Bergerac	p. 177
Understanding the "Rape" Scene in The Fountainhead	p. 201
Humor in The Fountainhead	p. 209
The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth	p. 227
The Basic Motivation of the Creators and the Masses in The Fountainhead	p. 243
Unborrowed Vision: Independence and Egoism in The Fountainhead	p. 285
Roark's Integrity	p. 305
A Moral Dynamiting	p. 313
Epilogue: An Interview with Leonard Peikoff	p. 325
Select Bibliography	p. 337
Index	p. 339
About the Contributors	p. 347
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