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Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
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Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
From Charles Olson
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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. | Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters