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Porter, Dennis Dudley was born on December 3, 1933 in Rayleigh, Essex, England. Son of William Arthur and Annie (Prangley) Porter. came to the United States, 1961.
( Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, phi...)
Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are shown to give rise to rich and complex works, in which individual psychic investments frequently subvert an inherited cultural discourse. In exploring the various uses and pleasures of travel, Porter interprets it as a transgressive activity animated by desire and haunted by different forms of guilt. Broad in its historical scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender criticism, and the social history of ideas. Texts analyzed include works by Boswell, Diderot, Bougainville, Cook, Stendhal, Darwin, Flaubert, Freud, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Gide, Lvi-Strauss, Barthes, and V. S. Naipaul. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Porter, Dennis Dudley was born on December 3, 1933 in Rayleigh, Essex, England. Son of William Arthur and Annie (Prangley) Porter. came to the United States, 1961.
Bachelor, Master of Arts, University Cambridge (England), 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1966.
Assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-1971; from associate to full professor modern European literature and theory, department French and Italian, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1971-1974; director Center for Studies in Contemporary Culture, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988-1991.
( Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, phi...)
( Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, phi...)
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Pilot Royal Air Force, 1952-1954. Member Modern Language Association, American Academy Literature Studies.
Married Annick F. Leitner, December 22, 1960. Children: Gregory Y., Thomas A., Benjamin W.