Let's Hide Our Eyes Then,

porter Guide to the Joseph Ashby Porter Papers, 1962-1995 Processed by: Paula Jeannet ; machine-readable finding aid created by: Stephen Douglas Miller

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from Microsoft Word 6.0 files. Processed by: Paula Jeannet December 7, 1995; Finding Aid encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. January 30, 1997 Description is in English. 12-31-2005 PUBLIC "-//Duke University::David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library//TEXT (US::NDD::::The Joseph Ashby Porter Papers)//EN" "porter.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) changed to conform to current Rubenstein Library and NC EAD standards as laid out in the Inventory Style Guide and in the NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. These changes were made by Michelle Belden. Also, container TYPE and LABEL attribute values were standardized according to the Rubenstein Library EAD 2002 manual and the NCEAD eadlocal.ent by Ruth E. Bryan.The tag list inside index was changed to indexentry by Ruth E. Bryan. June 29, 1998 Updated to EAD Version 1.0 from EAD Beta by Stephen Miller Guide to the Joseph Ashby Porter Papers, 1962-1995 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript LibraryDuke UniversityDurham, North Carolina

Descriptive Summary Joseph Ashby Porter Papers, 1962-1995 Porter, Joseph Ashby, 1942- 2 Linear Feet 42 Items Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Certain restrictions apply to patron wishing to use this collection: published works may be photocopied; the draft of the unpublished novel Let's Hide Our Eyes Then, may not be photocopied; however, up to 10% of any other item, including literary manuscripts, drafts, and proofs of published works may be photocopied. Any further extensive photocopying, or photocopying from materials other than listed above, or phocopying for any purposes other than private research and study will require the donor's permission.

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The copyright interests in the Joseph Ashby Porter Papers have not been transferred to Duke University. For further information, see the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Provenance

The papers of Joseph Ashby Porter (1942- ) were given as a gift to the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 1995 by Joseph Ashby Porter, a faculty member of the English Department at Duke.

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Processed by: Paula Jeannet

Completed December 7, 1995

Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller

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Biographical Note 1942, July 21 Born in Kentucky. 1964 B.A., Harvard University 1964-1965 Fulbright grant, Pembroke College, Oxford. 1966 M.A., University of California, Berkeley. 1973 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. 1970-1973 Assistant professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. 1976-1977 Assistant professor of English, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md. 1977 Published novel, Eelgrass, New Directions Press. 1977-1978 Assistant professor of English, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, Wash. 1978-1980 Assistant professor of English, Murray State University, Murray, Ky. 1979 Published The Drama of Speech Acts: Shakespeare's Lancastrian Tetralogy, University of California Press. 1980- Assistant professor of English, Duke University. 1983 Published The Kentucky Stories, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1984 Pulitzer Prize Nomination for The Kentucky Stories. 1989 Published Shakespeare's Mercutio: His History and Drama, University of North Carolina Press. 1990 Published Lithuania: Short Stories, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1995 Resident Aliens, a forthcoming novel, New Amsterdam Press.

Joe Ashby Porter is a writer and is a member of the English Department faculty at Duke University. He also has lived in England, North Africa, and France. He has written several novels and scholarly studies, and has contributed many short stories and articles to periodicals and journals, including Antaeus,South Atlantic Review, Occident,Minnesota Review, Triquarterly, andSun and Moon. His short fiction has also been anthologized in Contemporary American Fiction,The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and New Directions: An International Anthology.

Collection Overview

Collection spans the dates from 1962-1995, and consists of early notebooks containing the manuscript draft of published novel, Eelgrass; typescript of unpublished novella, Let's Hide Our Eyes Then; and a number of periodicals containing Porter's short fiction. Also includes published copy of Eelgrass.

Subject Headings

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Porter, Joseph Ashby, 1942- United States--Social life and customs. Authors, American--North Carolina. American literature--20th century--Periodicals. Short stories, American. Hippies--United States. Communal living--United States. United States--Social conditions--1960-1980. Youth--United States. Contents of Collection Joseph Ashby Porter Papers, 1962-1995 1 Periodicals, 1962-1995

Collection of 31 periodicals containing writings by Joe Ashby Porter. For a listing of periodicals and which works they contain, see Porter's curriculum vitaein the Collection Control File.

2 Drafts, c. 1970- c.1973

Collection of nine composition notebooks containing the draft of Porter's novel, Eelgrass. First seven notebooks contain chapters in order, while last two contain material to be inserted later.

Typescripts, c. 1970.

Typescript of unpublished novella, Let's Hide Our Eyes Then.

Printed Materials,1973.

One copy of published novel, Eelgrass.