Literature — History and criticism.
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Esquire Writers Symposium
Panel discussions on the role of American writers in society.\nPart One: Esquire Writers’ Symposium was initiated at Columbia University in 1958. The title of the program and the topic of discussion is the role of the writer in America. Discussion with Wright Morris, Leslie Fiedler, Saul Bellow and Dorothy Parker. The tape begins with an…
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War of the critics / Dwight Macdonald, John Simon, Pauline Kael.
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The Native Americans / produced by Byron Bryant.
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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 at the female child as a literary figure in Post Civil War America. She focuses on the portraits of female children in early American literature, the wide appeal and popularity of these noted literary heroines, and the national need they fulfilled.…
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The History of literature / by Nanos Valaoritis.
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Book notes / Beatrice Levin.
Author discusses literature and writers. |r.1. Rousseau’s small war with England (13 min.) ; contemporary American Jewish authors (15 min.) ; Janet Dunbar’s James M. Barrie: The Man Behind the Image (15 min.) ; Katherine Anne Porter’s Collected Essays and Writings (12 min.) ; William Makepeace Thackeray (16 min.) — r.2. J.D. Salinger (14 min.)…
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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 while traveling and speaking all over the United States on writing and the “novel of the future.” She says her novel of the future will employ such diverse techniques as the interior monologue, stream of consciousness, symbolism, abstraction, and metaphor, to…