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Call Me Ishmael (POD)

  • ISBN-13: 9780801857317
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Charles Olson, Afterword by Merton M. Sealts
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 14/12/1997
  • Format: Paperback 164 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences–especially Shakespearean ones–on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the ''theory of the two Moby-Dicks,'' Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville's reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a profound impact on his conception of the saga: ''the first book did not contain Ahab,'' writes Olson, and ''it may not, except incidentally, have contained Moby-Dick.'' If literary critics and reviewers at the time responded with varying degrees of skepticism to the ''theory of the two Moby-Dicks,'' it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

""Olson has been a tireless student of Melville and every Melville lover owes him a debt for his Scotland Yard pertinacity in getting on the trail of Melville's dispersed library.""

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