Call Me Ishmael
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Book
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ISBN 10
0801857317
ISBN 13
9780801857317
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Publication Year
1997
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Pages
164
Description
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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Main | 2753 | 813 Ols | 1 | Yes |