Literature — History and criticism. – Page 4

Poetry and prose : the essential difference / John Hall Wheelock.

Poet discusses the essential features of poetry that give it its unique strength.

August 24, 2025

Symposium on pornography in literature / moderated by John Simon.

Alfred Chester, Ephraim London, Benjamin de Mott, Ned Polsky, and Hubert Selby, Jr. discuss the role of pornography in literature.

August 24, 2025

Black socio-literary evolution / Horace Cayton.

Talk on the ideological forces underlying the work of Black authors.

August 24, 2025

One touch of Nature / written and read by Mary McCarthy

Novelist Mary McCarthy delivers the Harcourt Brace lecture at Columbia University. She is introduced by critic F. W. Dupee. Previously cataloged here as a short story, “One touch of Nature” is actually a lecture on the personification of Nature in novels.

August 24, 2025

Faust’s damnation : the morality of knowledge / Erich Heller.

Talk on the philosophical and moral underpinnings of Faust.

August 24, 2025

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 pre-Socratic thinkers (61 min.) — r.4. The Sophists (62 min.).

August 24, 2025

The Literature of Acedia / written and read by L.W. Michaelson.

Examination of American literature devoted to a philosophy of waste.

August 24, 2025

Ray Bradbury.

Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories.|RAY BRADBURY – SERIES: 26th World science fiction conference| no. 3 – Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories. – RECORDED: in Oakland, 31 Aug. 1968. BROADCAST: KPFA, 9 Nov. 1968.

August 24, 2025

Goethe’s Faust as man and superman / Helmut Reder.

A comparison of Faust with its origins in literature, analysing it as representing the intellectual conflicts of Goethe’s Europe.

August 24, 2025

From Beowolf to Virginia Woolf / Robert Mason Meyers.

Discussion of the history of English literature based on source material compiled by Meyers.

August 24, 2025