Call Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville - Hardcover

Olson, Professor Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1258426315 ISBN 13: 9781258426316

Verlag: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2012

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Críticas:

"Not only important, but apocalyptic." -- New York Herald Tribune

"One of the most stimulating essays ever written on Moby Dick, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"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." -- Lewis Mumford, New York Times

"Not only important, but apocalyptic." -- New York Herald Tribune

"One of the most stimulating essays ever written on Moby Dick, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"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." -- Lewis Mumford, New York Times

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.--Lewis Mumford "New York Times "

Reseña del editor:

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-Dick"s," it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

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• Verlag: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1258426315
• ISBN 13: 9781258426316
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 126