Literature -- History and criticism.
PRA Archive # | Title | Description | Genre | Broadcast Date |
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BB1563 | The Work of Paul Baran / Moses Abramovitz, Herbert Marcuse. |
Talks appraising Baran's writing.|THE WORK OF PAUL BARAN / Moses Abramovitz and Herbert... |
KPFA, 1 Apr. 196-. | |
BB0732.10 | Edgar Allen Poe / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Poe as an outsider to the mainstream of American letters. |
KPFA, 1 Dec. 1958. | |
BB0732.21 | American humor / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Henry Shaw, Charles Brown, and Edgar Nye, three early American humorists. |
KPFA, 1 June 1959. | |
BB0732.07 | Washington Irving / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On his contribution to American literature. |
KPFA, 10 Nov. 1958. | |
BB0732.26 | Frank Morris, Gertrude Atherton, and Jack London / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the heyday of California writings during the late 1800's. |
KPFA, 11 Jan. 1960. | |
BB0740.01-.06 | Protest or literary structure / Humphrey Kitto. |
Talk on literature at the Sather lectures. ,r.1. Criticism and chaos (38 min.) -- r.2. Criticism and chaos, continuted (30 min.) -- r.3.... |
KPFA, 11 Nov.-15 Dec. 1960. | |
BB0868A | War of the critics / Dwight Macdonald, John Simon, Pauline Kael. |
Panel discussion on techniques of literary criticism. |
KPFA, 12 Dec. 1963. | |
BB0868B | War of the critics / Dwight Macdonald, John Simon, Pauline Kael. |
Panel discussion on techniques of literary criticism. |
KPFA, 12 Dec. 1963. | |
BB0732.11 | Ralph Waldo Emerson / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Emerson's important contribution to the development of an American identity. |
KPFA, 12 Jan. 1959. | |
BB0843.01-.02 | The Autobiography of my books / Christopher Isherwood. |
Talk on his life and development. ,r.1. On his life before and during World War II (42 min.) -- r.2. On his life after World War II... |
KPFA, 12-19 Aug. 1963. | |
BB2041 | Goethe's Faust as man and superman / Helmut Reder. |
A comparison of Faust with its origins in literature, analysing it as representing the... |
KPFA, 13 Dec. 1966. | |
BB0732.03 | The Mathers : America's first literary family / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the literary impact of the Mathers. |
KPFA, 13 Oct. 1958. | |
BB0752.03 | Paul Valery / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his political writings. |
KPFA, 14 Dec. 1958. | |
BB1099 | Florence Becker Lennon program / Donald Keene. |
Talk on the influence of the West upon Japanese literature. |
KPFA, 15 Feb. 1959. | |
BB1840 | The New novel in the age of science / Gore Vidal. |
Author talks about new forms of literature. |
KPFA, 15 Jan. 1967. | |
BB4449.02 | Henry James / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on the writing of James; his existential perspective, the relation of sex and betrayal, his... |
KPFA, 15 May 1963. | |
BB0893.01 | Post-modern fiction and moral uncertainty / Irving Howe. |
Talk on the growth of an American moralistic school of writing after World War II.|POST-MODERN... |
KPFA, 15 Nov. 1962. | |
BB2024.04 | Edgar Rice Burroughs / Vern Coriell and Stanley B. Vinson. |
Discussion of Burroughs' lesser known science fiction works. |
KPFA, 15 Nov. 1968. | |
BB0752.05 | Andre Gide / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his leadership in French letters.|ANDRE GIDE / Francis Carmody... |
KPFA, 16 Nov. 1958. | |
BB0732.25 | Theodore Dreiser / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the social aspects of Dreiser's novels. |
KPFA, 16 Nov. 1959. | |
BB0737 | The Social ideology of the angry young men / Ian P. Watt. |
Talk on the English literary school, lead by John Osborne, Kengsley Anis, and Philip Larkin, who... |
KPFA, 17 Jan. 1959. | |
BB2048 | From Beowolf to Virginia Woolf / Robert Mason Meyers. |
Discussion of the history of English literature based on source material compiled by Meyers. |
KPFA, 17 Jul. 1967. | |
BB0732.08 | The Beginnings of the American novel / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the initial excesses and shortcomings of early American novelists. |
KPFA, 17 Nov. 1958. | |
BB0732.20 | The 19th century stage / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the clumsy but dynamic early plays. |
KPFA, 18 May 1959. | |
BB0981 | The English novel today : from Dickens to Snow / Angus Wilson. |
Talk on the evolution of the modern English novel. |
KPFA, 18 Nov. 1961. | |
BB2128 | The Literature of Acedia / written and read by L.W. Michaelson. |
Examination of American literature devoted to a philosophy of waste. |
KPFA, 19 Dec. 1966. | |
BB4122 | Was Homer an illiterate improviser? / Douglas Young. |
Talk about both the oral and literary ability of Homer. |
KPFA, 19 Dec. 1970. | |
BB0732.24 | Henry James / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the pro-American aspects of James' writings. |
KPFA, 19 Oct. 1959. | |
BB1011.01-.11 | Kenneth Rexroth on books. |
Series of lectures about world literature. ,r.1. Books on the Orient : Buddhism (32 min.) -- r.2. Books reviewed (ca. 30 min.) -- r.3. Ira... |
KPFA, 1959. | |
BC1360 | The Gravity of falling in love / Theodore Roszak ; interviewed by Clare Spark. |
Author of The Making of the Counter-Culture discusses his work. Also inlcudes statements by... |
KPFA, 1973. | |
BC2480 | The History of literature / by Nanos Valaoritis. |
Dramatization of the development of modern literature. |
KPFA, 1975. | |
AZ0621.01 | The Irish predicament / Brenden O'Hehir, Robert Tracy, and Joan Keefe ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. |
Themes and characteristics of Irish writing: preoccupation with death, history, words, non-... |
KPFA, 1982. | |
AZ0621.02 | Is herself in the house? / Robert Tracy and Joan Keefe ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. |
Grammatical idiosyncracies of the Irish language combined with socio-political influences are... |
KPFA, 1982. | |
AZ0621.04 | Vampire stories / Robert Tracy and Joan Keefe ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. |
Themes of vampires and death in Irish literature. Wanda McCadden reads from Carmilla by Sheridan... |
KPFA, 1982. | |
BB2785 | Shakespeare and the sonnet tradition / Dr. Aleksander V. Nejgebauer ; introduced by Matthew Zion. |
Talk on the sonnet tradition of the Renaissance, and its ultimate development by Shakespeare.... |
KPFA, 2 Apr. 1968. | |
BB1047 | Prolegomena to any future study of Winnie the Pooh / Frederick Crews. |
Humorous view of European literary criticism. |
KPFA, 2 Dec. 1964. | |
BB0851 | The Contemporary novel / Alfred Kazin, George Elliott, Herbert Gold, Evan McConnell Jr. |
Panel discusses language, characterization, and focus in the modern novel. |
KPFA, 2 May 1963. | |
BB0752.04 | The Novels of Marcel Proust / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his development and impact on society. |
KPFA, 2 Nov. 1958. | |
BB2850 | A. Okion Ojigbo on African literature / interviewed by Bob Sitton. |
Discussion of the long tradition in African literature. |
KPFA, 2 Nov. 1970. | |
BB0732.22 | Howells and realism / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the rise of American realism, particulary in the works of William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and... |
KPFA, 2 Oct. 1959. | |
BB0732.23 | Mark Twain / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the author who characterized frontier humor. |
KPFA, 2 Oct. 1959. | |
BB2024.06 | Remembrance of things past / moderated by Alva Rogers. |
Robert Block, Edmond Hamilton, Fritz Leiber, Emil Petaja, E. Hoffman Price, and Jack Williamson... |
KPFA, 20 Nov. 1968. | |
BB5207 | Escape! Anthony Boucher. |
Boucher discusses detective and suspense books. |
KPFA, 20 Oct. 1967. | |
BB0900 | The tradition of Negro writing |
Talk by Saunders Redding on the history of Black literature from caricature to protest to... |
KPFA, 21 Sept. 1964. | |
BB0781 | James Joyce / Brendan Behan. |
Talk on the life and work of the American author. |
KPFA, 22 Apr. 1962. | |
BB4449.03 | An Appreciation of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain's style / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on the powerfully innocent social commentary of Mark Twain.|AN APPRECIATION OF HUCKLEBERRY... |
KPFA, 22 May 1963. | |
BB0732.14 | Nathanial Hawthorne / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the moral basis of his transendentalist writings. |
KPFA, 23 Feb. 1959. | |
BB2052 | A Waxen tableau / John Hawkes. |
Hawkes reads and discusses his books The Cannibal, The Lime Twig, and Second Skin. |
KPFA, 23 Jan. 1967. | |
BB1844.03 | The Bloomsbury group / Angus Wilson. |
Talk on a noted literary group and its style. |
KPFA, 23 Jan. 1968. | |
BB0732.17 | The Civil War / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On literature about the Civil War which emerged from popular culture. |
KPFA, 23 Mar. 1959. | |
BB0733 | New world of the novelist / Malcolm Dowly. |
Talk on the stress on interpersonal relations in novels. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
BB0732.18 | The Early western / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the development of a popular image of the frontier. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
BB2024.07 | Science fiction examines the world of today / moderated by Bill Donaho. |
James Blish, John Campbell, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, and Norman Spinrad discuss the... |
KPFA, 24 Nov. 1968. | |
BB0732.04 | Jonathan Edwards / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Edwards role as a Puritan author and leader of the Great Awakening. |
KPFA, 24 Oct. 1958. | |
BB0732.27 | Late California writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On H.L. Meneken, the early 20th century humorist. |
KPFA, 25 Jan. 1960. | |
BB1147 | Fiction of the 60s / Herbert Gold ; introducted by Ian Watt. |
Speech on the threat of 1960's fiction writing for the establishment.|FICTION OF THE 60... |
KPFA, 25 July 1962. | |
BB0171 | California history through literature / James Hart. |
Talk on the distorted image of Spanish California presented in American literature. |
KPFA, 26 Sept. 1959. | |
BB0732.05 | Benjamin Franklin / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Franklin's common sense responses to Puritan thought. |
KPFA, 27 Oct. 1958. | |
BB0752.02 | The Plays of Jean Giraudoux / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his anti-material, romantic dramas. |
KPFA, 28 Dec. 1958. | |
BB0834 | Criticism of F.R. Leavis / Rene Wellek. |
Talk on Leavis' writings. |
KPFA, 29 Aug. 1963. | |
BB0732.09 | New England poets : 1800-1850 / produced by Byron Bryant. |
Discussion of Phillip Frennaux, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Longfellow. |
KPFA, 29 Nov. 1958. | |
BB1844.01 | An Interview / Angus Wilson ; interviewed by Prof. John H. Raleigh. |
On his novels, and British authorship. |
KPFA, 3 Jan. 1968. | |
BB0732.06 | Literary personality development / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the American literary tradition during the late 1700's. |
KPFA, 3 Nov. 1958. | |
BB0752.06 | Jules Romans' Men of Goodwill / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his monumental novel. |
KPFA, 3 Oct. 1958. | |
BB0732.12 | Henry David Thoreau / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Thoreau's philosophy and lifestyle. |
KPFA, 30 Jan. 1959. | |
BB0875 | Bay psalm book / read by Peter Winkler. |
Readings from the first book ever published in America, by the Puritans in New England. |
KPFA, 30 June 1964. | |
BB2024.08 | The Tolkien society / Ed Meskys, Al Halvey, and Peter S. Beagle. |
Discussion of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. |
KPFA, 30 Nov. 1968. | |
BB4454.05 | Death and rebirth in Shakespeare's The Tempest / Joseph Henderson. |
Talk on the psychological forces in Shakespeare's drama. |
KPFA, 4 Apr. 1966. | |
BB5313 | Mikhail Sholokhov / William Mandel. |
Mandel discusses the author of And Quiet Flows the Don and recipient of l965 Nobel Prize for... |
KPFA, 4 Dec. 1965. | |
BB0732.19 | Early California writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Waukeen Miller, Bret Hart, and Ambrose Bierce, and their popularization of California. |
KPFA, 4 May 1959. | |
BB4449.05 | William Dean Howells and the novel of manners / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on Howells' focus on customs and manners. |
KPFA, 5 June 1963. | |
BB1101.01 | The Problem of faith in literature / moderated by Robert O. Bowen. |
George Bluestone and Charles Gullans discuss the image of religion in literature. |
KPFA, 5 Sept. 1959. | |
BB0732.16 | The Southern poets / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the antebellum poets Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayen, and Sidney Lanier. |
KPFA, 6 Apr. 1959. | |
BB0732.02 | Early Puritan writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
Evaluation of Puritan psychology based on their writings. |
KPFA, 6 Oct. 1958. | |
BB2918 | 626 pages of nice stuff / Don Asher ; interviewed by Gene Dealessi. |
Novelist discusses his own work, and writing in general. |
KPFA, 7 Dec. 1970. | |
BB1458 | Book report : Revolt on the Campus / by Stanton Evans ; reviewed by John Leonard. |
Leonard's review of Evans' book. |
KPFA, 7 Feb. 1962. | |
BB0893.03 | The Unholy I / Herbert Gold. |
Talk on the separation of authors from the comman person. |
KPFA, 7 Nov. 1962. | |
BB0732.28 | F. Scott Fitzgerald / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the underpinnings of Fitzgerald's writings. |
KPFA, 8 Feb. 1960. | |
BB0732.13 | Walt Whitman / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On his romantic writing and its impact on American letters. |
KPFA, 9 Feb. 1959. | |
BB1844.02 | Charles Dickens / Angus Wilson. |
On English contributions to the development of the novel. |
KPFA, 9 Jan. 1968. | |
BB0732.15 | Herman Melville / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the positive and negative aspects of Melville's writings. |
KPFA, 9 Mar. 1959. | |
BB1848.01 | The Literary scene / Colin Wilson. |
Talk on the contemporary literary scene in England, America, and continental Europe. |
KPFA, 9 May 1968. | |
BB2024.03 | Ray Bradbury. |
Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories.|RAY BRADBURY... |
KPFA, 9 Nov. 1968. | |
BB0752.01 | Andre Malraux / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on Malraux's interpretation of society as expressed in his writings. |
KPFA, Dec. 1958. | |
BB0732.29 | Writers of the 30s / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On themes of 1930's novels. |
KPFA, Feb. 1960. | |
BB1066 | Jewish folklore / Lila B. Hassid and Samuel Bloomfield. |
Discussion of Jewish writers and the works.|JEWISH FOLKLORE / Lila B. Hassid and Samuel... |
KPFA, Feb. 1961. | |
BB2840.01-.04 | The Justice of Zeus / Hugh Lloyd-Jones. |
Lectures on the moral and intellectual traditions in Greek mythology. ,r.1. The Iliad (68 min.) -- r.2. Pollution and purification (57 min.) -- r.3. Aeschylus and the... |
KPFA, Jan.-Feb. 1970. | |
BB4449.04 | The Code of the big city : from Leaves of Grass to Speciman Days / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on the influence of urbanization on American literature. |
KPFA, June 1963. | |
BB0732.01 | The Native Americans / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On pre-contact viewpoints and the introduction of European influences. |
KPFA, Oct. 1958. | |
BB5087 | Krazy kat : a portrait in depth / by E.E. Cummings ; read by Norman Belkin. |
Reading of an analysis of George Herriman's characters.|KRAZY KAT : A PORTRAIT IN DEPTH / E... |
KPFK, 11 Jan. 1963. | |
BB4863 | The Banquet years : the American invasion / Stephen Longstreet. |
Speech about the cross-Atlantic literary and artistic traditions. |
KPFK, 12 May 1965. | |
BB4910 | German literature emigrates to California / written and read by Klaus Pringsheim. |
Discussion of the influx of German authors into California. |
KPFK, 16 Jan. 1969. | |
BB5005 | To be or not to be / by William Shakespeare. |
Analysis of Hamlet's famous soliloquy in four languages.|TO BE OR NOT TO BE / William... |
KPFK, 16 Sept. 1964. | |
BB4449.06 | Theodore Dreiser and the coming of naturalism / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk about American literature and the influence of naturalism. |
KPFK, 17 Aug. 1963. | |
BB5011 | Tough guy : L.A. style / by Philip Durham and Jack Hirschman ; read by Steve Wells. |
Examination of Raymond Chandler's detective novels and the portrait he paints of Los... |
KPFK, 17 Nov. 1963. | |
KZ1342 | Who was Orwell describing? / Jacobo Timmerman. |
Speech before the Los Angeles PEN Conference on George Orwell's writing, particularly how... |
KPFK, 19 Nov. 1983. | |
BC1259 | The Pound Ezra / by Dr. Hugh Kenner. |
Kenner joins Georg Gugelberger, Paul Vangelisti and Everett Frost in a discussion of Ezra's... |
KPFK, 1973. | |
BB5058 | Shakespeare and religion / Aldous Huxley ; read by David Ossman. |
Reading of article by Huxley a few hours before his death.|SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGION / aldous... |
KPFK, 21 Apr. 1964. | |
BC1890 | E. Howard Hunt : the man and his novels / Lee McLaren ; interviewed by Mike Hodel. |
English professor discusses Hunt's writing. |
KPFK, 24 Sept. 1973. | |
BB4917 | Hamlet : everyman's passive hero / Dr. John Monteyerdi. |
Evaluation of the character of Hamlet. |
KPFK, 26 Apr. 1964. |