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Howard Roark and the Great Heroes of Literature

Andrew Bernstein

Presented at: OCON 2018

Date: Jun 29, 2018

This talk shows that there are several attributes of literary heroism: the promotion of life-affirming values, the depth of virtue(s) manifested, the power of antagonists faced, and the hero’s degree of prowess. When we deploy such criteria and compare and contrast Howard Roark to some of literature’s other great heroes—for example, Odysseus, Cyrano, Doctor Stockmann, and Shane—where do we find he stands in the pantheon of literary heroism? This talk examines and answers this question.

literature

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