Kenneth Steele White
Kenneth Steele White (born November 19, 1922 , † June 29, 1996 ) was an American Romance scholar, literary scholar and poet.
Life
White received his PhD from Stanford University in 1958 with the thesis The development of Lenormand's principles and purposes as a dramatist . From 1960 to 1965 he was Assistant Professor of French at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . Then he went to the University of Kansas at Lawrence and was Associate Professor of French there until 1986.
Works
Romance Studies
- Savage comedy since King Ubu. A tangent to "the absurd", Washington DC 1977, 1980
- (Ed.) Savage comedy. Structures of humor , Amsterdam 1978
- Les Centers dramatiques nationaux de province 1945-1965 , Bern / Frankfurt a. M./Las Vegas 1979
- Man's new shapes. French avant-garde drama's metamorphoses , Washington DC 1979
- (with Edith Kern , John Fuegi, Leroy R. Shaw and Mary R. Davidson) Alogical modern drama. Essays , Amsterdam 1982
- Einstein and modern French drama. An analogy , Washington DC 1983
poetry
- Centers of a Universe , New Rochelle, NY 1978
- Like morning. Poetry , Ardmore, Pa. 1981
Web links
- Literature by and about Kenneth Steele White in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/kenneth-s-white (with picture)
- http://www.oread.ku.edu/Oread96/OreadJuly12/page4/deaths.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to http://lccn.loc.gov/n78009911
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | White, Kenneth Steele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist, literary scholar, and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1922 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1996 |