Karl Kroeber

Karl Kroeber (November 24, 1926 – November 8, 2009U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014) was an American literary scholar. He wrote about the English Romantics and American Indian literature. He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber. They were both anthropologists.

He was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He wrote about literary criticism and its relationship to ecology, traditional literature, and art history.

Kroeber's sister was the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. His children were Paul Kroeber, a linguist; Arthur Kroeber, a journalist and expert on the Chinese economy; and Katharine Kroeber Wiley, a writer.

Kroeber died of cancer on November 8, 2009. He was 82 years old.

Publications
Books
 Artistry in Native American Myths. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 
 British Romantic Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 
 Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. 
 Ishi in Three Centuries, with Clifton Kroeber. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 
 Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends.Ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
 Retelling/Rereading: the Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992  
 Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 
 Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 
 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.: Princeton University Press, 1971. 
 Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations, ed., 1981. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

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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