__NOTOC__ 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

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and

Alfred L. Kroeber Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his PhD under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia. He was also the first ...

, both anthropologists. He wrote an account of his father's work with Ishi called ''Ishi in Three Centuries''. He was professor of English and

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. He wrote widely on

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and its relationship to

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, traditional literature, and

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. Kroeber was the brother of the science fiction writer

Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the '' Earthsea'' fantasy series. She was ...

. 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.

Publications

Books

* ''Romantic Narrative Art''. Madison:

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, 1960. OCLC: 305135 * ''Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot''. Princeton, N.J.:

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, 1971. * ''Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth.'' Madison:

, 1975. * ''Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations'', ed., 1981. Lincoln:

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. * ''British Romantic Art''. Berkeley:

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, 1986. * ''Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction'' New Haven:

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, 1988. * ''Retelling/Rereading: the Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times.'' New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992 * ''Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind''. New York:

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, 1994. * ''Artistry in Native American Myths''. Lincoln:

, 1998. * ''Ishi in Three Centuries'', with

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. Lincoln:

, 2003. * ''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

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kroeber, Karl 1926 births 2009 deaths American academics of English literature American literary critics American people of German descent Columbia University faculty Comparative literature academics Deaths from cancer Kroeber family