| Contents |
Part 1: The history of The fountainhead -- The fountainhead from notebook to novel: the composition of Ayn Rand's first ideal man / Shoshana Milgram -- Howard Roark and Frank Lloyd Wright / Michael S. Berliner -- Publishing The fountainhead / Richard E. Ralston -- The Fountainhead Reviews / Michael S. Berliner -- Adapting The fountainhead to film / Jeff Britting -- Part 2: The fountainhead as literature and as philosophy -- What might be and ought to be: Aristotle's Poetics and The fountainhead / Tore Boeckmann -- Three inspirations for the ideal man: Cyrus Paltons, Enjolras, and Cyrano de Bergerac / Shoshana Milgram -- Understanding the "rape" scene in The fountainhead / Andrew Bernstein -- Humor in The fountainhead / Robert Mayhew -- The fountainhead and the spirit of youth / B. John Bayer -- The basic motivation of the creators and the masses in The fountainhead / Onkar Ghate -- Unborrowed vision: Independence and egoism in The fountainhead / Tara Smith -- Roark's integrity / Dina Schein -- A moral dynamiting / Amy Peikoff. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-338) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006023945 |
| ISBN | 0739115774 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739115770 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739115782 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739115787 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739115770 |
| ISBN | 9780739115787 |
