Panel: Literature and Society

In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 21, 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 and Society.” The panelists discuss the role of reading in society, conflict between artists and the state, the red scare, literature in education, media and television, stereotypes in television, the social message of literature, and positive and negative forms of literary criticism. Moderated by Joanna McClay