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Honor society inducts 16
Photo by Steve Pearce
Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor society, inducted new members last Thurs
day night at their induction and banquet on second floor McEwen. New members
are from left to right: Frank Isley, Missy Jones, Susan Bowling, Donna McNeill,
Marie Burns, Felicia Fogleman, Jim Cahill, Chris Quad, Kim Morrison, Chuck
Parks, Alice Essen, Ann Butler, Becky House. Absent from the picture are induc
tees David Bartenfield, Gerald Gibson and Pricilla Hayworth.
i'owlie relates his problems
a writing autobiographies
By Penny Thomas
Associate Editor
Dr. Wallace Fowlie, author
,d professor emeritus of
ike University, is working on
s third volume of his auto-
>graphy Memoirs. He said
It this section deals with
fees,” in other words he said,
laces that have meant a great
|b1 to me.”
owlie spoke in Mooney
atre last Thursday as a
:st of Sigma Tau Delta Hon-
Society. He said that when
I started on this project, “an
iotion takes over when I be-
l writing on an episode in my
’e." This emotion, Fowlie
Id, is “panic.”
“"e went on to discuss other
blems of autobiographical
iting and said that no one
taow anyone else’s life un
it is written about and read
ut—inevitably, he said, it
icomes an allegory. Some-
les this allegory of a peron’s
te “is not far away from fic-
l>n” since the writer has to
link back and sometimes
frange episodes by memory.
Fowlie said that he goes
Eiinst what he was taught in
lege in the 1930s and 1940s
lout the “new critics” way of
ewing written work. The new
itics, Fowlie said, tend to dis
card author’s intentions and
elings and hold that the work
lould be looked at for the
ork itself and not let any of
the author’s influences inter
rupt the piece.
But Fowlie said that he be
lieved that the true self of man
is always displaced in the lan
guage. He also relates auto
biographical writing as similar
to self-portraiture in painting
and perhaps even to dance and
other literature.
He said written autobiogra
phy is like Van Gogh’s or Rem-
brant’s paintings of themselves
and even Martha Graham’s
dances can be forms of auto
biographical expression.
Fowlie said that he tries to
“record particulars to stir the
imagination of his readers.” A
writer turns the story into a
personal myth and images per
sistently return in this cycle, he
said.
Fowlie strongly emphasized
the phrase, “It is myself I re
make” as almost an oath that he
goes by. He said he also be
lieved that “we are always
weaving novels,: and said, “My
self is the groundwork of my
book”
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