Kingsley Widmer

American literary critic

Kingsley Widmer


Born	July 17, 1925
Died	February 19, 2009 (aged 83)

Kingsley Widmer (1925–2009) was an American literary critic.

Life and career

Kingsley Widmer was born in Minneapolis on July 17, 1925^[1] and raised in the midwest.^[2] He attended the University of Wisconsin and finished his bachelor's degree (1949) and master's (1951) 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,^[1] when he joined the English faculty of San Diego State College.^[2] He became a full professor there in 1967.^[1]

Widmer was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley (1960–1961), Simon Fraser University (1967), the University of Nice (1970), SUNY Buffalo (1974), the University of Tulsa (1975, 1976, 1978),^[1] and taught literature at universities in Minnesota and Washington as well.^[2] He lectured on American literature at Tel Aviv University as a Fulbright scholar in 1963–1964.^[1]

Works

Literary Censorship (1961, Wadsworth, with wife Eleanor Widmer)^[1]
The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions (1962, University of Washington Press)^[3]^[4]
Henry Miller: A Critical Study (1963, Twayne, revised 1990)^[1]
The Literary Rebel (1965, Southern Illinois University Press)^[5]
The Experience of Freedom: Censorship and the Teacher (1966, American Federation of Teachers)^[1]
The Ways of Nihilism: A Study of Herman Melville's Short Novels (1970, Ward Ritchie)^[6]
The End of Culture: Essays on Sensibility in Contemporary Society (1975, San Diego State University Press)^[1]
Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism (1980, University of Tulsa)^[7]
Paul Goodman (1980, Twayne)^[8]
Nathanael West (1982, Twayne)^[1]
Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts (1988, University of Michigan)^[9]
Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence (1992, Southern Illinois University Press)^[10]

Personal life

Widmer married and had two children.^[1] He was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II^[1] and an anarchist.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Kingsley Widmer". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. 2015. Gale H1000105954.
^ ^a ^b ^c Woodward, Robert Hanson; Clark, James Jefferson, eds. (1968). The Social Rebel in American Literature. Odyssey Press. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-672-63115-3.
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- de Sola Pinto, Vivian (1963). "Review of The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions; Oedipus in Nottingham: D. H. Lawrence". The Modern Language Review. 58 (4): 571–572. doi:10.2307/3719950. ISSN 0026-7937. JSTOR 3719950.
- Goodheart, Eugene (1963). "Lawrence and the Critics". Chicago Review. 16 (3): 127–137. doi:10.2307/25293783. ISSN 0009-3696. JSTOR 25293783.
- Haber, Herbert R. (1964). "Review of The Art of Perversity: D. H. Lawrence's Shorter Fictions". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 23 (2): 275–276. doi:10.2307/427791. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 427791.
- Kettle, A. C. (1965). "Review of Oedipus in Nottingham: D. H. Lawrence; The Art of Perversity". The Review of English Studies. 16 (61): 100–101. doi:10.1093/res/XVI.61.100. ISSN 0034-6551. JSTOR 513573.
- Moore, Harry T. (1963). "Lawrence from All Sides". The Kenyon Review. 25 (3): 555–558. ISSN 0163-075X. JSTOR 4334365.
^ Book Review Digest 1965
^ Mackenzie, Nancy K. (July 21, 1965). "End Papers (Rev. of The Literary Rebel)". The New York Times. p. 35. ISSN 0362-4331.
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- Fogle, Richard Harter (1972). "Review of The Ways of Nihilism: A Study of Herman Melville's Short Novels". American Literature. 44 (3): 492–493. doi:10.2307/2924170. ISSN 0002-9831. JSTOR 2924170.
- Bowen, Merlin (1971). "Five Recent Melville Studies". CEA Critic. 33 (3): 36–40. ISSN 0007-8069. JSTOR 44376718.
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- Baxter, Charles (Winter 1981). ""Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism" by Kingsley Widmer (Book Review)". Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 23 (1): 97. ProQuest 1311737249.
- Hauck, Richard Boyd (1981). "Review of Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today; Edges of Extremity: Some Problems of Literary Modernism. University of Tulsa Monograph Series, No. 17; Language in Modern Literature: Innovation and Experiment; The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature". Modern Fiction Studies. 27 (2): 388–391. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26280713.
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- Abbott, Craig S. (1980). "Review of Mary Hallock Foote; Sarah Barnwell Elliott; Gene Stratton Porter; George Sterling; Paul Goodman". Resources for American Literary Study. 10 (2): 231–236. doi:10.2307/resoamerlitestud.10.2.0231. ISSN 0048-7384. JSTOR 26366146. S2CID 246621329.
- Humm, Maggie (1982). "Review of Paul Goodman". Journal of American Studies. 16 (2): 260–261. doi:10.1017/S0021875800010598. ISSN 0021-8758. JSTOR 27554139.
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- Barberet, John R. (1990). "Review of Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts". Slavic Review. 49 (2): 309–310. doi:10.2307/2499512. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2499512. S2CID 165120199.
- Levitas, Ruth (1990). "Review of Counterings: Utopian Dialectics in Contemporary Contexts". Utopian Studies. 1 (1): 155–157. ISSN 1045-991X. JSTOR 20718981.
- Sargent, Lyman Tower (1991). "Insults and Jargon". Science Fiction Studies. 18 (1): 134–135. ISSN 0091-7729. JSTOR 4240040.
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- Blanchard, Lydia (1994). "Review of Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence; D. H. Lawrence: Language and Being". Modern Fiction Studies. 40 (2): 402–404. ISSN 0026-7724. JSTOR 26284459.
- Ingersoll, Earl (1993). "Review of Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D. H. Lawrence". Studies in the Novel. 25 (3): 379–380. ISSN 0039-3827. JSTOR 29532971.
- Zytaruk, George (1993). "Review of Defiant Desire: Some Dialectical Legacies of D.H. Lawrence". The D.H. Lawrence Review. 25 (1/3): 201–203. ISSN 0011-4936. JSTOR 44235500.
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- Widmer, Kingsley (1996). "Notes on Some Recent Anarchisms". Social Anarchism (21): 88–97. ISSN 0196-4801. for an old anarchist ... my broad and anti-dogma libertarianism
- Widmer, Kingsley (2002). "Arguing Anarchism". Social Anarchism (27). ISSN 0196-4801. 'You're practically an anarchist!' Yes, indeed.