Panel: Literature as a Mirror

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

20-3-1978 12:00 PM

End Date

20-3-1978 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Monday, March 20, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen, and Ring Lardner, Jr. participate in a panel called “Literature as a Mirror.” The panelists discuss fiction as a reflection of experience, how they came to understand writing, the medium of film as a storytelling device, the voice of the mother in literature, distortion of reality in literature, satire and parody, Lardner's experience as a blacklisted Communist writer, sociological writing, Willa Cather, how the experiences of writers emerge in fiction, the importance of reading, and academic and non-academic education.

Note: A portion of this panel wasn't recorded. The recording also has intermittent breaks and repeated segments.

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Panel: Literature as a Mirror

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Monday, March 20, 1978, as part of the 9th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Mirror and the Lamp,” Eudora Welty, Tillie Olsen, and Ring Lardner, Jr. participate in a panel called “Literature as a Mirror.” The panelists discuss fiction as a reflection of experience, how they came to understand writing, the medium of film as a storytelling device, the voice of the mother in literature, distortion of reality in literature, satire and parody, Lardner's experience as a blacklisted Communist writer, sociological writing, Willa Cather, how the experiences of writers emerge in fiction, the importance of reading, and academic and non-academic education.

Note: A portion of this panel wasn't recorded. The recording also has intermittent breaks and repeated segments.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1978/day1/2