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First edition (publ. Harvest) Cover design by Paul Rand. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks.It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism.
Although Rand was most famous for the corporate logos he created in the 1950s and 1960s, his early work in page design was the initial source of his reputation. In 1936, Rand was given the job of setting the page layout for an Apparel Arts (now GQ ) magazine anniversary issue. [ 6 ] "
Rand used interviews with scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the character Robert Stadler. Rand biographer Anne Heller traces some ideas that would go into Atlas Shrugged back to a never-written novel that Rand outlined when she was a student at Petrograd State University. The futuristic story featured an American heiress luring the most ...
Since her death, scholars of English and American literature have continued largely to ignore her work, [162] although attention to her literary work has increased since the 1990s. [163] Several academic book series about important authors cover Rand and her works, [ l ] as do popular study guides like CliffsNotes and SparkNotes . [ 165 ]
The books below focus on Ayn Rand's life or her literary works. Baker, James T. (1987). Ayn Rand. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7497-1. OCLC 14933003. Branden, Barbara (1986). The Passion of Ayn Rand. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company. ISBN 0-385-19171-5. OCLC 12614728. Branden, Nathaniel (1999). My Years with ...
Objectivism is a philosophical system named and developed by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand.She described it as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".
The book became one of Rand's strongest-selling works of nonfiction, selling over 400,000 copies in the first four months of its release, [11] and over 1.35 million copies by 2014. [12] Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein described the collection of essays as "eclectic" and "appealing to interested nonacademic or nonspecialist readers as well as ...
Rand also owned a copy of a 1940 novel with characters named Jed and John Peter Galt. There was a 19th-century Scottish novelist of the same name, but Milgram says that any connection to the character is "highly unlikely". Milgram also notes that the name Rand originally picked for her character was Iles Galt. [1]