Call Me Ishmael - Softcover

Olson, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224612700 ISBN 13: 9780224612708

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1967

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114p slim paperback with lime dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, excellent, almost as new

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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.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0224612700
• ISBN 13: 9780224612708
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166