Call Me Ishmael

ISBN-13: 9780801857317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 164 str.

Charles Olson; Jr. Merton M. Sealts

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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.