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He is professor of English and comparative literature at [[Columbia University]]. His many books on literary criticism and its relation to ecology, traditional literature, and art history, are widely held in many hundreds of academic libraries. |
He is professor of English and comparative literature at [[Columbia University]]. His many books on literary criticism and its relation to ecology, traditional literature, and art history, are widely held in many hundreds of academic libraries. |
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He is also a brother of the science-fiction writer [[Ursula K. LeGuin]] and father of the linguist [[Paul Kroeber]]. |
He is also a brother of the science-fiction writer [[Ursula K. LeGuin]] and father of the linguist [[Paul Kroeber]] and the economist [[Arthur Kroeber]]. |
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==Publications== |
==Publications== |
Revision as of 13:25, 11 May 2008
Karl Kroeber b. 1926, is a literary scholar, perhaps known best as a writer on American Indian literature. He is the son of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber Quinn. His most recent book is an account of his father's famous work with Ishi, Ishi in Three Centuries
He is professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. His many books on literary criticism and its relation to ecology, traditional literature, and art history, are widely held in many hundreds of academic libraries.
He is also a brother of the science-fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin and father of the linguist Paul Kroeber and the economist Arthur Kroeber.
Publications
Books
- Ishi in three centuries with Clifton B Kroeber. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2003. ISBN 0803227574
- Artistry in Native American myths. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998. ISBN 080322737X
- Ecological literary criticism : romantic imagining and the biology of mind. New York : Columbia University Press, 1994. ISBN 0231100280 (held in 444 libraries, according to WorldCat)
- Retelling/rereading : the fate of storytelling in modern times. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1992 ISBN 0813517656 (held in 310 libraries)
- Romantic fantasy and science fiction New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1988. ISBN 0300042418
- British romantic art Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1986. ISBN 0520054849
- (ed.) (1981) Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. (held in 310 libraries)
- Romantic landscape vision: Constable and Wordsworth. [Madison] University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. ISBN 0299067106 (held in 691 libraries, according to WorldCat)
- Styles in fictional structure; the art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1971. ISBN 0691061912
- Romantic narrative art. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1960. OCLC: 305135 (held in 1093 libraries, according to WorldCat)
Selected Essays
- The Evolution of Literary Study, 1883-1983 PMLA, Vol. 99, No. 3, Centennial Issue (May, 1984), pp. 326-339
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