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Karl Kroeber (1926–2009)

Author of Creation Myths of America

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About the Author

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

Includes the names: Karl Kroeber (ed.), compiled and edited by Karl Kroeber

Works by Karl Kroeber

Creation Myths of America (1898) — Editor — 59 copies

Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (1981) 49 copies

Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism (1993) 18 copies

Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends (2004) 17 copies

Artistry in Native American Myths (1998) 14 copies

American Indian persistence and resurgence (1994) 11 copies

Ecological Literary Criticism (1994) 11 copies

Ishi in three centuries (2003) — Editor — 8 copies

British Romantic Art (1986) 8 copies

Romantic narrative art (1966) 7 copies

Romantic Landscape Vision: Constable and Wordsworth (1975) 7 copies

Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times (1992) 6 copies

Images of Romanticism: Verbal and Visual Affinities (1978) 5 copies

Studying poetry; a critical anthology of English and American poems (1965) 4 copies

Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling (2006) 4 copies

Styles in fictional structure : the art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot (1971) 4 copies

The Artifice of Reality (1964) 3 copies

Study Guide to accompany Principles of Manegerial Finance (1991) 2 copies

Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction (1988) 2 copies

Studies in American Indian Literatures 2 copies

Blake in a Post-Secular Era: Early Prophecies (2012) 2 copies

Backgrounds to British Romantic Literature 1 copy

boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture (1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence) 1 copy

Associated Works

Wounds beneath the flesh (1983) — Preface — 16 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1926-11-24
Date of death: 2009-11-08
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Occupations: Professor of English and comparative literature
literary scholar
Relationships: Le Guin, Ursula K. (sister)
Kroeber, Alfred L. (father)
Organizations: Columbia University

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Lionel Trilling Book Award

Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times (1993)

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Associated Authors

Clifton B. Kroeber Editor

Statistics

Works: 23
Also by: 1
Members: 245
Popularity: #92,910
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 49

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