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Fall 2006

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Article

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Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 2006. ISSN 0196-7134

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2006 © the Association for Documentary Editing. Used by permission.

Abstract

Joel Porte, 72, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Emeritus at Cornell University, died of esophageal cancer on 1 June 2006. He came to Cornell in 1987 after twenty-five years in the Harvard English Department, including service as its chair. Through a forty-year career at both universities he gained international recognition as a scholar of American literature and a specialist in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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