Книга: Joel Porte «Emerson Prospect&Retrospect (Paper)»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" Emerson Prospect&Retrospect (Paper) ISBN:9780674249172 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (1982)
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Joel Porte
Joel Miles Porte (
Biography
Porte was born in Brooklyn, New York to "impecunious and unpedigreed" second-generation Russian
Admitted to Harvard for graduate studies, Porte obtained his Ph.D. in 1962 and received the Bowdoin Prize for an essay on Emerson. Seven years later, at the age of 36, Porte would become one of the youngest persons to reach the rank of full professor in the history of the Harvard English department. Awarded a Rockefeller Scholarship to
In 1987, he resigned as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Harvard English Department to become the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of American Literature at Cornell. Two years later, Porte was appointed Cornell's Director of American Studies and Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters. Porte retired from the university in 2004 with the title
Porte wrote and published 12 books, the most highly admired of which were "Representative Man" (Oxford, 1979; rev. ed., Columbia, 1988), a biographical reading of Emerson's character and works; "In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing" (Cambridge, 1991), and "Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed" (Yale, 2004). These, together with his edited volumes, established him as a leader in the study of 19th century American literature. The works edited by Porte included "Emerson in His Journals" (Belknap, 1982), the "
References
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*cite journal
last = Gelpi
first = Albert
title = In Memoriam: Joel Miles Porte (1933–2006)
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volume = 79
pages = 473–476
date = 2006
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External links
* [http://www.arts.cornell.edu/jwst/porte.html Curriculum vitae, from Cornell University]
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