Literature -- History and criticism.
| PRA Archive # | Title | Description | Genre |
Broadcast Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB3312 | One touch of Nature / written and read by Mary McCarthy |
Novelist Mary McCarthy delivers the Harcourt Brace lecture at Columbia University. She is... |
American Women -- Authors and journalists | WBAI, December 24, 1961 |
| BB0755 | Esquire Writers Symposium |
Panel discussions on the role of American writers in society. Part One: Esquire Writers... |
WBAI, 1959. | |
| BC0899 | The novel of the future : realism and reality in the novel |
Anais Nin (1902-1977) introduces this program as a summary of many discussions she's had... |
American Women -- Poetry | KPFK, February? 1972 |
| BC2815.06 | Post Civil War girls and the American nightmare / Cynthia Wolff (Program 6 of 6) |
Cynthia Wolff, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, takes a look... |
American Women -- Parenting and children | KPFK, 1975 |
| SZ0378 | Poet Philip Whalen / interviewed by Jack Loeffler. |
Discussion of the Beat literary movement. Includes a performance of G.F. Handel's Concerto... |
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| BB0771.07 | Comedy / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on the power of comedy to overcome dispair. |
WBAI, 9 Aug. 1961. | |
| BB4449.01 | Tradition as style : the education of Henry Adams / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on the literary traditions that shaped the perspective and style of Henry Adams.|TRADITION... |
WBAI, 8 May 1963. | |
| BB3383 | Fact in fiction / moderated by Eric Bentley. |
Alfred Kazin, Susan Sontag, and Robert Lowell discuss the portrayal of real life in fiction.|... |
WBAI, 6 May 1964. | |
| BB3251 | Faust's damnation : the morality of knowledge / Erich Heller. |
Talk on the philosophical and moral underpinnings of Faust. |
WBAI, 5 Jan. 1962. | |
| BB3649 | Yale report |
Authors R.W.B. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and William Styron discuss modern fiction... |
WBAI, 29 Sept. 1967. | |
| BB3371 | Influence of the German dramatists and early expressionists / moderated by Frank Wedekind. |
Donald Levin, Manfred George, and Haskell Block discuss the impact of modern German writing. |
WBAI, 28 June 1964. | |
| BB0771.04 | In defense of melodrama / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on melodrama as a poor man's catharsis.|IN DEFENSE OF MELODRAMA / Eric Bentley... |
WBAI, 28 June 1961. | |
| BB0771.06 | Tragedy / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on tragedy and anxiety. |
WBAI, 26 July 1961. | |
| BB3893 | Books to buy, borrow, or burn. |
Review of Herman Hesse's book Under the Wheel. |
WBAI, 24 Nov. 1968. | |
| BB3376 | Black socio-literary evolution / Horace Cayton. |
Talk on the ideological forces underlying the work of Black authors. |
WBAI, 24 Jan. 1965. | |
| BB3643 | The Novelist's view of Anglo-American fiction / Saul Bellow, Angus Wilson, and Elizabeth Kerr. |
Three novelists discuss modern English fiction.|THE NOVELIST'S VIEW OF ANGLO-AMERICAN... |
WBAI, 24 Apr. 1961. | |
| BB3734 | The Anti-hero in the American novel / Leslie Fiedler and R.W.B. Lewis. |
Discussion of American literary traditions. |
WBAI, 1961. | |
| BB0755.01-.03 | Esquire Writers Symposium. |
Panel discussions on the role of American writers in society. ,r.1. The Role of the writer in America / Leslie Fiedler, Saul Bellow, Morris Wright, Dorothy... ,r.1. The Role of the writer in America / Leslie Fiedler, Saul Bellow, Morris Wright, Dorothy... |
WBAI, 1959. | |
| BC2666 | A Tribute to I.F. Stone. |
Actuality of the presentation of the Eleanor Roosevelt Peace Award to I.F. Stone. Includes... |
WBAI, 15 Nov. 1975. | |
| BB3779.47 | Bertolt Brecht on love / Eric Benltey. |
Examination of the role of love in Brecht's work.|BERTOLT BRECHT ON LOVE / Eric Bentley... |
WBAI, 15 June 1967. | |
| BB0771.03 | In praise of types / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on characters and characterizations in dramas and novels. |
WBAI, 14 June 1961. | |
| BB4033 | James and his critics / moderated by Elizabeth Pollet. |
Leon Edel, Elizabeth Hardwick, and P.W. Dupee discuss the writing of James Joyce. |
WBAI, 14 Jan. 1963. | |
| BB5359.05 | A Very old man with enormous wings / by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; read by Jane Wagner. |
Reading of M2.arquez's short story.|A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS / by Gabrile Garcia... |
WBAI, 14 Apr. 1972. | |
| BB3435 | Hegel and Rilke : Duino Elegies / Erich Heller ; introduced by John Simon. |
Literary critic lectures on traditions in German literature. |
WBAI, 14 Apr. 1966. | |
| BB0771.05 | The Force of farce / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on the psychological fulfillment of farce. |
WBAI, 12 July 1961. | |
| BB3377 | Henry James and the Jacobites / Maxwell Geismar ; interviewed by Richard Elman. |
Critical examination of James' impact on literature. |
WBAI, 12 Dec. 1963. | |
| BB3841.01-.05 | Poetry and prose : the essential difference / John Hall Wheelock. |
Poet discusses the essential features of poetry that give it its unique strength. |
WBAI, 1-24 Oct. 1963. | |
| BB3470 | Whither science fiction? / moderated by Baird Searles. |
Authors Thomas Disch, Joanna Russ, and Terry Carr discuss the literary merits of science fiction... |
WBAI, 1 Mar. 1970. | |
| BB3840.15 | Symposium on pornography in literature / moderated by John Simon. |
Alfred Chester, Ephraim London, Benjamin de Mott, Ned Polsky, and Hubert Selby, Jr. discuss the... |
WBAI, 1 Jan. 1967. | |
| BC1237 | Book notes / Beatrice Levin. |
Author discusses literature and writers. ,r.1. Rousseau's small war with England (13 min.) ; contemporary American Jewish authors (15... |
KPFT, 1970. | |
| BB4466.01-.09 | Writers at work / interviews by Frank Roberts. |
Authors discuss their lives, objectives, and current works. ,r.1. Richard Lid (45 min.) -- r.2. C.Y. Lee (51 min.) -- r.3. Ben Maddow (55 min.) -- r.4.... |
KPFK, Nov. 1965. | |
| BC0888 | Anais Nin interviewed by Frank Roberts on the publication of The Diary of Anais Nin. |
Francis (Frank) Roberts interviews author Anais Nin (1903-1977) on the occasion of the... |
American Women -- Authors and journalists | KPFK, April 25, 1966 and 1972 (date unknown) |
| BB5180 | Poetry : after Auschwitz / Reinhard Lettau. |
Talk on the impact of World War II horrors upon the artistic community around the world. |
KPFK, 9 Apr. 1969. | |
| BC0437.02 | Walt Whitman / Jascha Kessler. (Episode 2 of 5) |
Kessler reads and discusses the prophetic nature of Whitman's writings. |
KPFK, 8 Nov. 1971. | |
| BB5036 | Chaos to Christ : a psychological commentary on the life and works of Dostoevsky / read by Harvey Mindess. |
Examination of the life and work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. |
KPFK, 8 May 1963. | |
| BB4968 | From pricks to pim / Ray Federman. |
Analysis of the writing of Samuel Beckett. |
KPFK, 4 Jan. 1965. | |
| BB4984 | Shakespeare's Richard II : a universal state of feelings / John Monteverdi. |
Talk on the universality of the characterizations in Richard II.|SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD II... |
KPFK, 4 Apr. 1964. | |
| BB5035 | Samuel Beckett's Theatre / Judith J. Radke ; read by Lee Whiting. |
Reading of Radke's analysis of Beckett's work. |
KPFK, 30 Dec. 1962. | |
| BB4896 | The Dye that did not run / by Nelson Algren ; read by Jack Hirschman. |
Reading of Algren's The Nation article about the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. |
KPFK, 29 Aug. 1962. | |
| BB5172 | Hero motifs in fairy tales |
Clare (Loeb) Spark introduces Dr. Harold Stone, clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst, and... |
American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | KPFK, 28 June 1971. |
| BB4960 | The Novel in contemporary British society / Angus Wilson. |
Talk on the role of the novel in a changing urban world. |
KPFK, 26 Oct. 1960. | |
| BB4917 | Hamlet : everyman's passive hero / Dr. John Monteyerdi. |
Evaluation of the character of Hamlet. |
KPFK, 26 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB4449.06 | Theodore Dreiser and the coming of naturalism / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk about American literature and the influence of naturalism. |
KPFK, 17 Aug. 1963. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB4863 | The Banquet years : the American invasion / Stephen Longstreet. |
Speech about the cross-Atlantic literary and artistic traditions. |
KPFK, 12 May 1965. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.01 | The Native Americans / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On pre-contact viewpoints and the introduction of European influences. |
KPFA, Oct. 1958. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.29 | Writers of the 30s / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On themes of 1930's novels. |
KPFA, Feb. 1960. | |
| BB0752.01 | Andre Malraux / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on Malraux's interpretation of society as expressed in his writings. |
KPFA, Dec. 1958. | |
| BB2024.03 | Ray Bradbury. |
Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories.|RAY BRADBURY... |
KPFA, 9 Nov. 1968. | |
| BB1848.01 | The Literary scene / Colin Wilson. |
Talk on the contemporary literary scene in England, America, and continental Europe. |
KPFA, 9 May 1968. | |
| BB0732.15 | Herman Melville / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the positive and negative aspects of Melville's writings. |
KPFA, 9 Mar. 1959. | |
| BB1844.02 | Charles Dickens / Angus Wilson. |
On English contributions to the development of the novel. |
KPFA, 9 Jan. 1968. | |
| BB0732.13 | Walt Whitman / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On his romantic writing and its impact on American letters. |
KPFA, 9 Feb. 1959. | |
| BB0732.28 | F. Scott Fitzgerald / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the underpinnings of Fitzgerald's writings. |
KPFA, 8 Feb. 1960. | |
| BB0893.03 | The Unholy I / Herbert Gold. |
Talk on the separation of authors from the comman person. |
KPFA, 7 Nov. 1962. | |
| BB1458 | Book report : Revolt on the Campus / by Stanton Evans ; reviewed by John Leonard. |
Leonard's review of Evans' book. |
KPFA, 7 Feb. 1962. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.02 | Early Puritan writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
Evaluation of Puritan psychology based on their writings. |
KPFA, 6 Oct. 1958. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB4449.05 | William Dean Howells and the novel of manners / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on Howells' focus on customs and manners. |
KPFA, 5 June 1963. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.12 | Henry David Thoreau / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Thoreau's philosophy and lifestyle. |
KPFA, 30 Jan. 1959. | |
| BB0752.06 | Jules Romans' Men of Goodwill / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his monumental novel. |
KPFA, 3 Oct. 1958. | |
| BB0732.06 | Literary personality development / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the American literary tradition during the late 1700's. |
KPFA, 3 Nov. 1958. | |
| BB1844.01 | An Interview / Angus Wilson ; interviewed by Prof. John H. Raleigh. |
On his novels, and British authorship. |
KPFA, 3 Jan. 1968. | |
| BB0732.09 | New England poets : 1800-1850 / produced by Byron Bryant. |
Discussion of Phillip Frennaux, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Longfellow. |
KPFA, 29 Nov. 1958. | |
| BB0834 | Criticism of F.R. Leavis / Rene Wellek. |
Talk on Leavis' writings. |
KPFA, 29 Aug. 1963. | |
| BB0752.02 | The Plays of Jean Giraudoux / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his anti-material, romantic dramas. |
KPFA, 28 Dec. 1958. | |
| BB0732.05 | Benjamin Franklin / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Franklin's common sense responses to Puritan thought. |
KPFA, 27 Oct. 1958. | |
| BB0171 | California history through literature / James Hart. |
Talk on the distorted image of Spanish California presented in American literature. |
KPFA, 26 Sept. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.27 | Late California writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On H.L. Meneken, the early 20th century humorist. |
KPFA, 25 Jan. 1960. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.18 | The Early western / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the development of a popular image of the frontier. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
| BB0733 | New world of the novelist / Malcolm Dowly. |
Talk on the stress on interpersonal relations in novels. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
| BB0732.17 | The Civil War / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On literature about the Civil War which emerged from popular culture. |
KPFA, 23 Mar. 1959. | |
| BB1844.03 | The Bloomsbury group / Angus Wilson. |
Talk on a noted literary group and its style. |
KPFA, 23 Jan. 1968. | |
| BB2052 | A Waxen tableau / John Hawkes. |
Hawkes reads and discusses his books The Cannibal, The Lime Twig, and Second Skin. |
KPFA, 23 Jan. 1967. | |
| BB0732.14 | Nathanial Hawthorne / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the moral basis of his transendentalist writings. |
KPFA, 23 Feb. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0781 | James Joyce / Brendan Behan. |
Talk on the life and work of the American author. |
KPFA, 22 Apr. 1962. | |
| 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. | |
| BB5207 | Escape! Anthony Boucher. |
Boucher discusses detective and suspense books. |
KPFA, 20 Oct. 1967. | |
| 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. |
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