Karl Kroeber
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Karl Kroeber (November 24, 1926 – November 8, 2009) was an American literary scholar, known for his writing on the English Romantics and
American Indian literature. He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber, both anthropologists. He wrote an account of his father's work with Ishi
called Ishi in Three Centuries.
He was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He wrote widely on literary criticism and its relationship to ecology, traditional literature, and art history.
Kroeber was the brother of the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. He was father of Paul Kroeber, a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and consultant on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer.
Kroeber died of cancer on November 8, 2009 at the age of 82.[1][2]
Publications
Books
- Romantic Narrative Art. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960. OCLC: 305135
- Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot. Princeton, N.J.: ISBN 0-691-06191-2
- Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth. Madison: ISBN 0-299-06710-6
- Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations, ed., 1981. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- British Romantic Art. Berkeley: ISBN 0-520-05484-9
- Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction New Haven: ISBN 0-300-04241-8
- Retelling/Rereading: the Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times. New Brunswick, N.J.: ISBN 0-8135-1765-6
- Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: ISBN 0-231-10028-0
- Artistry in Native American Myths. Lincoln: ISBN 0-8032-2737-X
- Ishi in Three Centuries, with ISBN 0-8032-2757-4
- Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends.Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan; 2006.
- Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies. Romantic Circles, 2012.
Selected essays
- "The Evolution of Literary Study", 1883–1983 PMLA, Vol. 99, No. 3, Centennial Issue (May, 1984), pp. 326–339
References
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- ^ Davis, Alexa (November 11, 2009). "Columbia mourns loss of Karl Kroeber". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
External links
- Petrov, Phillip (November 11, 2009). "Karl Kroeber, or living and dying in the present". Columbia Daily Spectator.
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