Literature -- History and criticism.
| PRA Archive # |
Title |
Description | Genre | Broadcast Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BB3649 | Yale report |
Authors R.W.B. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and William Styron discuss modern fiction... |
WBAI, 29 Sept. 1967. | |
| BB0732.29 | Writers of the 30s / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On themes of 1930's novels. |
KPFA, Feb. 1960. | |
| 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. | |
| BB4449.05 | William Dean Howells and the novel of manners / Alfred Kazin. |
Talk on Howells' focus on customs and manners. |
KPFA, 5 June 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.07 | Washington Irving / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On his contribution to American literature. |
KPFA, 10 Nov. 1958. | |
| BB4122 | Was Homer an illiterate improviser? / Douglas Young. |
Talk about both the oral and literary ability of Homer. |
KPFA, 19 Dec. 1970. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.13 | Walt Whitman / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On his romantic writing and its impact on American letters. |
KPFA, 9 Feb. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0771.06 | Tragedy / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on tragedy and anxiety. |
WBAI, 26 July 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.25 | Theodore Dreiser / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the social aspects of Dreiser's novels. |
KPFA, 16 Nov. 1959. | |
| 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-. | |
| BB0893.03 | The Unholy I / Herbert Gold. |
Talk on the separation of authors from the comman person. |
KPFA, 7 Nov. 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0752.02 | The Plays of Jean Giraudoux / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his anti-material, romantic dramas. |
KPFA, 28 Dec. 1958. | |
| BB0752.04 | The Novels of Marcel Proust / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his development and impact on society. |
KPFA, 2 Nov. 1958. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 |
| 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. | |
| BB1840 | The New novel in the age of science / Gore Vidal. |
Author talks about new forms of literature. |
KPFA, 15 Jan. 1967. | |
| BB0732.01 | The Native Americans / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On pre-contact viewpoints and the introduction of European influences. |
KPFA, Oct. 1958. | |
| BB0732.03 | The Mathers : America's first literary family / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the literary impact of the Mathers. |
KPFA, 13 Oct. 1958. | |
| 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. | |
| BB1848.01 | The Literary scene / Colin Wilson. |
Talk on the contemporary literary scene in England, America, and continental Europe. |
KPFA, 9 May 1968. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BC2480 | The History of literature / by Nanos Valaoritis. |
Dramatization of the development of modern literature. |
KPFA, 1975. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0771.05 | The Force of farce / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on the psychological fulfillment of farce. |
WBAI, 12 July 1961. | |
| BB0981 | The English novel today : from Dickens to Snow / Angus Wilson. |
Talk on the evolution of the modern English novel. |
KPFA, 18 Nov. 1961. | |
| BB0732.18 | The Early western / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the development of a popular image of the frontier. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.17 | 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB4863 | The Banquet years : the American invasion / Stephen Longstreet. |
Speech about the cross-Atlantic literary and artistic traditions. |
KPFK, 12 May 1965. | |
| 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. | |
| BB3734 | The Anti-hero in the American novel / Leslie Fiedler and R.W.B. Lewis. |
Discussion of American literary traditions. |
WBAI, 1961. | |
| BB0732.20 | The 19th century stage / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the clumsy but dynamic early plays. |
KPFA, 18 May 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB2024.03 | Ray Bradbury. |
Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories.|RAY BRADBURY... |
KPFA, 9 Nov. 1968. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB1047 | Prolegomena to any future study of Winnie the Pooh / Frederick Crews. |
Humorous view of European literary criticism. |
KPFA, 2 Dec. 1964. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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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| BB0752.03 | Paul Valery / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his political writings. |
KPFA, 14 Dec. 1958. | |
| 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 |
| BB0733 | New world of the novelist / Malcolm Dowly. |
Talk on the stress on interpersonal relations in novels. |
KPFA, 24 Apr. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.14 | Nathanial Hawthorne / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the moral basis of his transendentalist writings. |
KPFA, 23 Feb. 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. | |
| BB0732.23 | Mark Twain / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the author who characterized frontier humor. |
KPFA, 2 Oct. 1959. | |
| BB0732.06 | Literary personality development / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the American literary tradition during the late 1700's. |
KPFA, 3 Nov. 1958. | |
| BB0732.27 | Late California writers / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On H.L. Meneken, the early 20th century humorist. |
KPFA, 25 Jan. 1960. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0752.06 | Jules Romans' Men of Goodwill / Francis Carmody. |
Talk on his monumental novel. |
KPFA, 3 Oct. 1958. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0781 | James Joyce / Brendan Behan. |
Talk on the life and work of the American author. |
KPFA, 22 Apr. 1962. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0771.03 | In praise of types / Eric Bentley. |
Talk on characters and characterizations in dramas and novels. |
WBAI, 14 June 1961. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| BB0732.15 | Herman Melville / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the positive and negative aspects of Melville's writings. |
KPFA, 9 Mar. 1959. | |
| BB3377 | Henry James and the Jacobites / Maxwell Geismar ; interviewed by Richard Elman. |
Critical examination of James' impact on literature. |
WBAI, 12 Dec. 1963. | |
| BB0732.24 | Henry James / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On the pro-American aspects of James' writings. |
KPFA, 19 Oct. 1959. | |
| 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. | |
| BB0732.12 | Henry David Thoreau / produced by Byron Bryant. |
On Thoreau's philosophy and lifestyle. |
KPFA, 30 Jan. 1959. | |
| BB3435 | Hegel and Rilke : Duino Elegies / Erich Heller ; introduced by John Simon. |
Literary critic lectures on traditions in German literature. |
WBAI, 14 Apr. 1966. | |
| BB4917 | Hamlet : everyman's passive hero / Dr. John Monteyerdi. |
Evaluation of the character of Hamlet. |
KPFK, 26 Apr. 1964. | |
| 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. |
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