Literature -- History and criticism.

Grammatical idiosyncracies of the Irish language combined with socio-political influences are...

Talk on the distorted image of Spanish California presented in American literature.

Evaluation of Puritan psychology based on their writings.

On Edwards role as a Puritan author and leader of the Great Awakening.

On the American literary tradition during the late 1700's.

On the initial excesses and shortcomings of early American novelists.

On Poe as an outsider to the mainstream of American letters.

On Thoreau's philosophy and lifestyle.

On the moral basis of his transendentalist writings.

On the antebellum poets Henry Timrod, Paul Hamilton Hayen, and Sidney Lanier.

On the development of a popular image of the frontier.

On the clumsy but dynamic early plays.

On the rise of American realism, particulary in the works of William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and...

On the pro-American aspects of James' writings.

On the heyday of California writings during the late 1800's.

On the underpinnings of Fitzgerald's writings.

Talk on the stress on interpersonal relations in novels.

Talk on literature at the Sather lectures.

r.1. Criticism and chaos (38 min.) -- r.2. Criticism and chaos, continuted (30 min.) -- r.3....

Talk on his anti-material, romantic dramas.

Talk on his development and impact on society.

Talk on his monumental novel.

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...

Talk on melodrama as a poor man's catharsis.|IN DEFENSE OF MELODRAMA / Eric Bentley...

Talk on tragedy and anxiety.

Talk on the life and work of the American author.

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...

Panel discussion on techniques of literary criticism.

Readings from the first book ever published in America, by the Puritans in New England.

Talk on the separation of authors from the comman person.

Talk on the evolution of the modern English novel.

Humorous view of European literary criticism.

Talk on the influence of the West upon Japanese literature.

Speech on the threat of 1960's fiction writing for the establishment.|FICTION OF THE 60...

Talks appraising Baran's writing.|THE WORK OF PAUL BARAN / Moses Abramovitz and Herbert...

On his novels, and British authorship.

Talk on a noted literary group and its style.

Bradbury reads and discusses some of his short stories.|RAY BRADBURY...

Robert Block, Edmond Hamilton, Fritz Leiber, Emil Petaja, E. Hoffman Price, and Jack Williamson...

Discussion of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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

Examination of American literature devoted to a philosophy of waste.

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...

Novelist discusses his own work, and writing in general.

Novelist Mary McCarthy delivers the Harcourt Brace lecture at Columbia University. She is...

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

Alfred Kazin, Susan Sontag, and Robert Lowell discuss the portrayal of real life in fiction.|...

Authors Thomas Disch, Joanna Russ, and Terry Carr discuss the literary merits of science fiction...

Authors R.W.B. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and William Styron discuss modern fiction...

Examination of the role of love in Brecht's work.|BERTOLT BRECHT ON LOVE / Eric Bentley...