An account of the life and culture of Ishi, the last survivor of a "lost" California Indian tribe.

Ecological Literary Criticism asks that we examine poetry from a perspective that assumes that the imaginative acts of cultural beings offer valuable insights into how and why cultural and natural phenomena have interrelated in the past and ...

Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor of Humanities at Columbia University.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

"In this passionate, erudite, and far-ranging book, Kroeber renews for our multi-cultural age a fundamental argument: the stories we tell, hear, read, and see make a difference to the lives we read.

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

Examines the origins of English Romantic poetry.