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Porte, Joel Miles was born on November 13, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob I. and Frances (Derison) Porte.
(Oxford University Press, 1979, Very good., Hardcover. 361...)
Oxford University Press, 1979, Very good., Hardcover. 361 pages. Very good in dust jacket. 0195024362. Literary Criticism, Biography, Ralph Waldo, Emerson Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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(Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth cen...)
Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the "text" in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of "rhetorical" reading to historical context, and the nature of "Romanticism" in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Frederick Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers.
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Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America’s foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protégé. The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired. In this book of essays, Porte focuses on Emerson and Thoreau as writers. He traces their individual achievements and their points of intersection, arguing that both men, starting from a shared belief in the importance of self-culture,” produced a body of writing that helped move a decidedly provincial New England readership into the broader arena of international culture. It is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in the writings of Emerson and Thoreau.
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Porte, Joel Miles was born on November 13, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob I. and Frances (Derison) Porte.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, City College of New York, 1957; A.M., Harvard University, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1962.
Instructor English, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962-1964; assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1968; associate professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1969; professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1982; Bernbaum professor of literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982-1987; chairman English and American Literature Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985-1987; Frederic J. Whiton professor of English, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1987-1989; Ernest I. White professor American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1989. Visiting lecturer American Studies Research Center, Hyderabad, India, spring 1976.
(Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth cen...)
( Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple ...)
(Oxford University Press, 1979, Very good., Hardcover. 361...)
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Member American Studies Association, American Literature Association Beta Kappa. M C.
Married Ilana D'Ancona, June 17, 1962 (divorced 1977). 1 child, Susanna Maria. Married Helene Sophrin, October 18, 1985.