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He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber, noted anthropologists. His most recent book was an account of his father"s famous work with Ishi: Ishi in Three Centuries.
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University Of Wisconsin Pr, 1966, Good., Paperback. 225 pages. Ink underlining and notes on several pages. Light cover wear. Literary Criticism, Narrative poetry Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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Artifice of Reality: Poetic Style In Wordsworth, Foscolo, Keats, and Leopa Hardcover Karl Kroeber (Author)
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(Argunig that Romanticism has taken on an intellectual sig...)
Argunig that Romanticism has taken on an intellectual significance in the 1980s unanticipated even fifteen years ago, Kroeber reassesses the full spectrum of British Romantic art and points out the limits in the modern conception of Romanticism as basically expressionistic.
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This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, representing every traditional Native American culture area. Developing recent ethnopoetic scholarship and drawing on the critical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin and Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Kroeber reveals how preconceptions deriving from our hypervisual, print-dominated culture distort our understanding of essential functions and forms of oral storytelling. Kroeber demonstrates that myths do not merely preserve tradition but may transform it by performatively reenacting the concealed sociological and psychological conflicts that give rise to social institutions. Showing how the variability of mythic narrative fosters communal self-renewal, Kroeber offers startling insight into Native Americans’ perception of animals as “cultured,” their creation of visually unrepresentable tricksters by aural imagining, and the rhetorical means through which oral narratives may not only reflect but even redirect political change. By making understandable the forgotten artistry of oral storytelling, Kroeber enables modern readers to appreciate fully the tragic emotions, hilarious ribaldry, and haunting beauty in these astonishing Native American mythic narratives.
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This treatise argues that literary criticism must re-establish connections to a wide range of social activities. It sets out a new type of criticism, called ecological literary criticism, which aims to make humanistic studies more socially responsible.
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Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insightful and unsettling perspectives and the latest research to enrich and personalize our understanding of one of the most famous Native Americans of the modern era—Ishi, the last Yahi. After decades of concealment from genocidal attacks on his people in California, Ishi (ca. 1860–1916) came out of hiding in 1911 and lived the last five years of his life in the University of California Anthropological Museum in San Francisco.  Contributors to this volume illuminate Ishi the person, his relationship to anthropologist A. L. Kroeber and others, his Yahi world, and his enduring and evolving legacy for the twenty-first century. Ishi in Three Centuries features recent analytic translations of Ishi’s stories, new information on his language, craft skills, and his personal life in San Francisco, with reminiscences of those who knew him and A. L. Kroeber. Multiple sides of the repatriation controversy are showcased and given equal weight. Especially valuable are discussions by Native American writers and artists, including Gerald Vizenor, Louis Owens, and Frank Tuttle, of how Ishi continues to inspire the creative imagination of American Indians.
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Describing in detail precise differences between the psychological experience of reading a novel and watching a movie, Make Believe in Film and Fiction shows how movies' unique magnification of movements produces stories especially potent in exposing hypocrisy, the spread of criminality in contemporary society, and the relation of private experience to the natural environment. By contrasts of novels with visual storytelling the book also displays how fiction facilitates sharing of subjective fantasies, frees the mind from limiting spatial and temporal preconceptions, and dramatizes the ethical significance of even trivial and commonplace behavior, while intensifying readers' awareness of how they think and feel.
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He was the son of Theodora and Alfred L. Kroeber, noted anthropologists. His most recent book was an account of his father"s famous work with Ishi: Ishi in Three Centuries.
Associate of Arts, College of Pacific, Stockton, California, 1945. Bachelor of Arts California, Berkeley, 1947. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1951.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1956.
Assistant professor, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1956-1961; associate professor, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1961-1963; professor, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1963-1970; associate dean, University of Wisconsin -Madison (Graduate School), 1963-1965; Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University, New York City, since 1970; department chairman English and comparative literature, Columbia University, New York City, 1973-1976; Mellon professor humanities, Columbia University, New York City, 1987.
( Describing in detail precise differences between the ps...)
(Argunig that Romanticism has taken on an intellectual sig...)
( Ishi in Three Centuries brings together a range of insi...)
( With the aid of new analytic techniques, including the ...)
( This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb sto...)
(Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestabli...)
(This treatise argues that literary criticism must re-esta...)
(Artifice of Reality: Poetic Style In Wordsworth, Foscolo,...)
(Hardback book (no dust jacket) titled ARTIFICE OF REALITY...)
(University Of Wisconsin Pr, 1966, Good., Paperback. 225 p...)
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Member Modern Language Association, International Association University professors English, North America Society Study of Romanticism, Jane Austen Society North America, Academy Literature Studies, Byron Society, Association for Study of Native American Literature, Keats-Shelley Association.
Married Jean Taylor, March 21, 1953. Children— Paul Demarest, Arthur Romeyn, Katharine.