Background
Widmer, Kingsley was born on July 17, 1925 in Minneapolis. Son of Vera Estes Bingham Widmer.
( Kingsley Widmer, one of the most insightful and provoca...)
Kingsley Widmer, one of the most insightful and provocative learned critics, has long had a considerable influence on D. H. Lawrence studies. Here he elaborates the crucial argument that the erotic conversion experience and its dialectic of social negation centrally define Lawrence, thus creating his major legacies. In dialectically considering all of Lawrence’s novels and many of his essays and stories, Widmer carries the issues beyond the texts to Lawrence’s literary and ideological inheritors, including Henry Miller and Norman Mailer. In addition, he imbeds Lawrence’s fictions and roles in the "dark prophecy" of affirmatively countering the Nietzschean tradition and, in a striking chapter on Lady Chatterley’s Lover explores the use of obscenity, sexual ideology, and anticlass utopianism. This is Lawrence as a major dissident culture hero with a still pertinent, drastic revisionism of human responses in a nihilistic world. It is a large and controversial critical view.
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Widmer, Kingsley was born on July 17, 1925 in Minneapolis. Son of Vera Estes Bingham Widmer.
Student, University Wisconsin, 1942-1943; Bachelor magna cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1949; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Washington, 1957.
Instructor, Reed College, 1955-1956; Professor of English, San Diego State University, 1956-1991; professor emeritus, San Diego State University, since 1991. Visiting Professor of English University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1961, Tel Aviv, U., 1963-1964, Simon Fraser U., Vancouver, Canada, 1967, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1974, U. Tulsa, 1975, 76, 78.
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With United States Army, 1943-1946, PTO and European Theatre of Operations.
Children: Matthew, Jonah.