Kingsley Widmer
Kingsley Widmer was an American literary critic.
Life and career
Kingsley Widmer was born in Minneapolis on July 17, 1925 and raised in the midwest. He attended the University of Wisconsin and finished his bachelor's degree and master's at the University of Minnesota. Widmer completed his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1957. He was a Ford Foundation humanities intern at Reed College in Oregon in 1955 and continued there as an instructor until 1956, when he joined the English faculty of San Diego State College. He became a full professor there in 1967.Widmer was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, Simon Fraser University, the University of Nice, SUNY Buffalo, the University of Tulsa, and taught literature at universities in Minnesota and Washington as well. He lectured on American literature at Tel Aviv University as a Fulbright scholar in 1963–1964.
Works
- Literary Censorship
- The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions
- Henry Miller: A Critical Study
- The Literary Rebel
- The Experience of Freedom: Censorship and the Teacher
- The Ways of Nihilism: A Study of Herman Melville's Short Novels
- The End of Culture: Essays on Sensibility in Contemporary Society
- Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism
- Paul Goodman
- Nathanael West
- Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts
- ''Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence''
Personal life