Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson
2015 Reprint of the 1947 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 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.Charles Olson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the year 1910. Call Me Ishmael, his debut book, was released in 1947 and is a case study of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Olson was a prolific letter writer, essayist, poet, and academic. He was a professor who taught at a variety of colleges and universities, including Clark, Harvard, and Black Mountain College. In the 1950s and 1960s, he had a wide range of effect in various sectors of thinking. In 1970, he died in New York while working on his opus, The Maximus Poems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781614279075 |
| ISBN 10 | 1614279071 |
| Title | Call Me Ishmael |
| Author | Charles Olson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Martino Fine Books |
| Year published | 2015-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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