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High-Quality Analysis of Seminal Novel
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5 Star Amazon Review

"Well-written, extremely well-researched, scholarly collection of essays on what the author calls 'the greatest American novel ever written'. I tend to agree. This book is thoughtful, searching, and a pleasure to read. And it enhances one's enjoyment of the classic 1943 novel itself."

This site analyzes Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfiction:

  1. The Fountainhead;
  2. Atlas Shrugged;
  3. We the Living; 
  4. Anthem;
  5. For the New Intellectual;
  6. The Virtue of Selfishness;
  7. Capitalism the Unknown Ideal;
  8. The Romantic Manifesto;
  9. Philosophy Who Needs It;
  10. And, more.

Accordingly, this site has a blog, with videos of Ayn Rand’s speeches – like her Mike Wallace interview – a raw data section, which organizes almost all facts from AR’s fiction; a sample essays and reference guides section, where you can read excerpts of what Emre has written so far; a select bibliography page that directs people to secondary resources on AR’s fiction-and-nonfiction; a book proposals section, which synopsizes Emre’s books, outlines his marketing plan, contrasts his works with the competition, and, ultimately shows reader’s why Emre’s books should be traditionally published; a CV page that suggests Emre’s future books, his research interests, his teaching interests, his professional memberships, his secondary languages, and more; an AR scholars worksheet that not only lists the name, affiliation, biography, & contact, of 229 AR scholars, but also catalogues their books, articles, speeches, dissertations, abstracts, and subject-areas, as well; links to Emre’s Academia.edu website, were you can read, and download some of what Emre has written; links to Amazon Reviews and Good Reads Reviews for Emre’s AR books, and, finally, links to Emre’s AR Analyzed Facebook Fan Page.

Why You Should Buy, Read, & Study Emre’s Reference Guides & Essay Books

Emre’s Reference Guides will help you understand Ayn Rand’s fiction more accurately. By helping you locate information from “The Fountainhead,” “Anthem,” “We the Living,” and “Atlas Shrugged,” more easily. Specifically, their characters, scenes, buildings, locations, newspapers, groups, officials, institutions, organizations, and more, in an easily understandable format. With indexes, tables, biographies, glossaries, and original analysis. Thus, making it easier for people to find the data they are looking for. Since, Emre’s reference guides organize and condense almost all information in Rand’s books.

Emre’s Essay Books will help you clarify AR’s books. Since, his literary criticism focuses on what happens inside of AR’s novels, not what people think outside of them. So, that instead of arguing by declaration, without proof, or arguing from authority, without evidence, Emre’s books marshal and position book facts to prove a satisfying interpretive argument. From a text-centric line of reasoning, not a context-centric method of argumentation. Because Emre pulls his theses more out of specific book facts, and less out of other people’s knowledge. Ultimately, making Emre’s analysis objectively verifiable. Since, people can confirm Emre’s claims by referring to AR’s books. This, ultimately, is how Emre initiates and sustains logical reasoning on the main content of AR’s novels’, only using valid secondary research, once in a while, to prove his theses.

In other words, because Emre presents a radically original new look on well-worn material that intellectually contributes to Objectivism, scholars may like Emre’s essays on AR’s fiction. Because his writings present an original take on AR’s books. Perhaps, prompting some scholars to modify, enhance, even rethink, their intellectual positions on Rand’s novels. Since, Emre’s unique essays convey new lines of original analysis. So, that scholars who are tired of reading the shared, overused, ideas of conventional intellectuals may be invigorated by Emre’s refreshing essays.

Most importantly, you should purchase Emre’s books because Emre’s themes relate to regular people’s everyday lives. For his books are not abstract, literary discussions, unconnected to people’s real-world concerns. Rather, Emre’s books explain to young people how they can develop their own careers—based on what they love to do, like Howard Roark did—by working a series of integrated jobs, throughout their lives. So, that youths build their lives to success like he did by not only working practical jobs in one field until they get really good at it, but also by supplementing their concrete jobs, with a theoretical education. So, youths can realize their full potential. For Emre’s books shows people how they can live a good life.

Thus, interested readers who are either self-taught, or who have a college education, can learn a lot from Emre’s criticism.

Also, since Emre’s essays are governed by an all-controlling thesis as the basis for
selection, they prove one theme, and only one theme, per essay. Referencing book facts,
outside scholarship, and Emre’s own thinking, to illuminate AR’s fiction. Thus, because Emre’s essays ask new questions and provide new answers—instead of just writing about things that have been written about before—it does not just topic-cover as some of AR criticism does. Also, because Emre’s essays are highly structured, from start-to-finish, with unique theses; orienting introductions; clarifying footnotes; vivid pictures; and searchable indexes; all parts of Emre’s books work together to seamlessly convey one point. With unified paragraphs, logical flow, relevant content, and topical sentences.

This, ultimately, is why Emre’s essay books will help you understand specific themes in Ayn Rand’s fiction, from a succinct viewpoint. Since, his criticism not only use precise words to convey exact thoughts but also because Emre varies the lengths of his paragraphs, uses sentences that logically continue what he wrote before, and uses a condensed economy-of-words to express his views.

In sum, you should buy, read, study, and quote Emre’s essays books. Since, they have a variety of clear and uniquely insightful theses; because they prove simple arguments smoothly and logically; because they provide expert analysis with no useless summary; because they use convincing evidence including references to and quotations from the text that are interpreted rather than merely cited; because they feature paragraphs that are unified, coherent, fully developed and in logical order; and, lastly, because Emre’s works have eloquent sentences that are not only grammatically correct but stylistically superb, especially in terms of clarity.

This site has free samples of what Emre Gurgen has written so far. Please return for updates.

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