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Kira Argounova | |
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We the Living character | |
First appearance | 1936 |
Created by | Ayn Rand |
Portrayed by | Alida Valli |
Kira Argounova is the protagonist of We the Living, a 1936 novel by Ayn Rand.
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Background
[edit]Published in 1936, We the Living was the debut novel of Ayn Rand, an author born and initially raised in Soviet Russia who moved to the United States in 1926.[1]
Fictional biography
[edit][] She aspires to be an engineer.[2]
Textual history
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Interpretation
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In adaptations
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References
[edit]- ^ Vukadinović (2018, pp. 232–233).
- ^ Brühwiler (2015, p. 146)
Sources
[edit]- Branden, Barbara (1999). "Ayn Rand: The Reluctant Feminist". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 25–46. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.
- Britting, Jeff (2012). "Adapting We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 181–208. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Brown, Susan Love (1999). "Ayn Rand: The Woman Who Would Not Be President". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 275–298. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.
- Brown, Susan Love (2007). "Beyond the 'Stillborn Aspiration': Virtuous Sexuality in Atlas Shrugged". In Younkins, Edward W. (ed.). Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion. Routledge. pp. 279–294. doi:10.4324/9781315568591. ISBN 978-0754655336.
- Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska (February 2015). "'Prospector and Jeweler': Ayn Rand on the Relationship between Politics and Literature". Journal of American Studies. 49 (1): 143–158. doi:10.1017/S0021975814001820. JSTOR 24485802.
- Gramstad, Thomas (1999). "The Female Hero: A Randian–Feminist Synthesis". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 333–362. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.
- Grigorovskaya, Anastasiya Vasilievna (July 2023). "Ayn Rand's Years in the Stoyunin Gymnasium". Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. 23 (1–2): 85–122. doi:10.5325/jaynrandstud.23.1-2.0085.
- Heller, Anne C. (2009). Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Nan C. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385529464.
- Lewis, John David (2012). "Kira's Family". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 333–350. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Loiret-Prunet, Valérie (1999). "Ayn Rand and Feminist Synthesis: Rereading We the Living". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 83–114. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.
- Maurone, Joseph (Spring 2002). "The Trickster Icon and Objectivism". Journal of Ayn Rand Studies. 3 (2): 229–258. JSTOR 41560188.
- Mayhew, Robert, ed. (2012). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Mayhew, Robert (2012). "Kira Argounova Laughed: Humor and Joy in We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 351–362. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Mayhew, Robert (2012). "We the Living '36 and '59". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 209–242. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- McConnell, Scott (2012). "Parallel Lives: Models and Inspirations for Characters in We the Living". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Milgram, Shoshana (2012). "From Airtight to We the Living: The Drafts of Ayn Rand's First Novel". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 1–44. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Milgram, Shoshana (2012). "The Education of Kira Argounova and Leo Kovalensky". In Mayhew, Robert (ed.). Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living (2nd ed.). Lexington Books. pp. 85–112. ISBN 978-0-7391-4969-0.
- Offord, Derek (2022). Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American Right. Russian Shorts. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350283930.
- Salmieri, Gregory (2016). "The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values)". In Gotthelf, Alan; Salmieri, Gregory (eds.). A Companion to Ayn Rand. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 47–72. doi:10.1002/9781118324950. ISBN 9781405186841.
- Vukadinović, Vojin Saša (2018). "We the Living: The First American Novel on Soviet Russia, the Soul of 'Any Dictatorship,' and Its Aftermath in the Cold War". American Communist History. 17 (2): 232–246. doi:10.1080/14743892.2018.1464869. ISSN 1474-3892.
- Wilt, Judith (1999). "The Romances of Ayn Rand". In Gladstein, Mimi Reisel; Sciabarra, Chris Matthew (eds.). Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 173–198. ISBN 978-0-271-01831-7.