Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=7095&N=3+5631+6669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1018488 Ayn Rand, author of the best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, is beloved by millions of readers, and equally despised by a significant number of detractors. Her novels and her revolutionary philosophy of Objectivism have acquired a world-wide following. They have also created legions of readers who are hungry for a deeper understanding of her writings. Despite her undeniably significant contributions to the literary canon and the progression of philosophy, there has been no simple, comprehensive introduction to Rands books and ideas, until now. Ayn Rand For Beginners sheds new light on Rands monumental works and robust philosophy. In clear, down-to-earth language, it explains Rand to a new generation of readers in a manner that is entertaining, and easy to read and comprehend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=322965 Aristotles Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history. A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce pity and fear - and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. It introduces the crucial concepts of mimesis (imitation), hamartia (error) and katharsis, which have informed serious thinking about drama ever since. It examines the mythological heroes, idealized yet true to life, whom Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides brought on to the stage. And it explains how the most effective plays rely on complication and resolution, recognitions and reversals. Essential reading for all students of Greek literature and of the many Renaissance and post-Renaissance writers who consciously adopted Aristotle as a model, the Poetics is equally stimulating for anyone interested in theatre today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136069 The full philosophical system underlying Ayn Rands stories about life as if might be and ought to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=173345