Background
Porter, David Hugh was born on October 29, 1935 in New York City. Son of Hugh B. and Ethel K. (Flentye) Porter.
(This book discusses three Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Sev...)
This book discusses three Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles' Antigone, and Euripides' Heracles. Its focus is on continuity and discontinuity, unity and disintegration, connection and separation both in the structure and in the thematic content of these plays. All extended Greek passages are accompanied by a translation.
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Willa Cather’s fiction frequently plays out on “the divide,” the high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a child. This book suggests that Cather’s own life played out on a divide as well, deliberately measured out between different roles and personae that made their way into her writing. On the Divide analyzes the iconic image that Cather helped develop for herself, in contrast to the anonymous face she adopted for promotional activities and the very different private self she shared only with friends and family. Delving into Cather’s correspondence and the little-known promotional material she produced anonymously, David Porter provides new insight into the extent—and direction—of her control. He also considers the contrasting influences of Mary Baker Eddy, whose biography Cather ghostwrote, and Sarah Orne Jewett on the author’s emerging artistic persona. The study goes on to explore the many ways in which these “divides” in Cather’s life found expression in her writing. Extending from Cather’s early stories to her final novel, Porter’s book documents the degree to which Cather’s understanding of her own different and often conflicting sides, and of her penchant for playing diverse roles, enabled her as a novelist to create characters so torn, so complex, and so profoundly human.
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Drawing on archives only recently made available, this book both explores a previously unknown chapter in Willa Cather's life and offers the first full portrait of two artists whose lives are as fascinating as they are unbelievable. Earl Brewster and Achsah Barlow met as New York art students, married in 1910, and spent the remainder of their lives painting and writing in Europe and India. Deeply spiritual and often impecunious, they nonetheless managed to live stylishly and to attract the friendship of people like Cather, D.H. Lawrence, and the Nehru family. Although their friendship with Lawrence is well known, that with Cather has only now come to light, though it extended from the early 1900s until Cather's death in 1947, and had a profound impact on Cather and her writing. The book concludes with a representative sampling of the Brewster-Cather materials that this book explores for the first time. Illustrated with four color plates and five black-and-white illustrations.
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academic administrator music educator musician classicist
Porter, David Hugh was born on October 29, 1935 in New York City. Son of Hugh B. and Ethel K. (Flentye) Porter.
Bachelor with highest honors, Swarthmore College, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy (Danforth Graduate fellow, Woodrow Wilson Graduate fellow), Princeton University, 1962; student, Philadelphia Conservatory Music, 1955-1961.
Instructor in classics and music, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1962-1963;
assistant professor, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1963-1968;
associate professor, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1968-1973;
professor, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1973-1987;
William H. Laird professor liberal arts, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1974-1987;
president faculty, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1980-1982;
college president, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1986-1987;
president, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1987-1998;
professor classics, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1987-1998. Phi Beta Kappa visiting lecturer, 1979-1992, visiting scholar, 1994-1995. Visiting professor classics Princeton University, 1986.
Visiting professor classics Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, since 1999. Recitalist, lecturer, especially on contemporary music, at colleges, universities throughout United States, Europe, on radio and television. Board directors Adirondack Trust Company.
Chairman Hudson-Mohawk Association, 1990-1992.
(Drawing on archives only recently made available, this bo...)
( Willa Cather’s fiction frequently plays out on “the div...)
(This book discusses three Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Sev...)
(This book discusses three Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Sev...)
Member American Philological Association, Classical Association Atlantic States.
Married Laudie Ernestine Dimmette, June 21, 1958 (deceased November, 1986). Children: Hugh, Everett, Helen, David. Married Helen Louise Nelson, August 24, 1987.