{"product_id":"call-me-ishmael-a-study-of-melville-1258429683","title":"Call Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1258429683\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Olson, Professor Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduct 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-Dick\"s,\" it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy. Review 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\"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\"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\"Not only important, but apocalyptic.\" -- New York Herald Tribune\"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\"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 About the Author Charles Olson (1910-1970), an avant garde poet, literary critic, and literary theorist, is the author of \"The Maximus Poems,\" \"The Distances,\" \"The Human Universe and Other Essays,\" and \"In Cold Hell, in Thicket.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51880900919584,"sku":"NEW1258429683","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41tSD8q9ddL.jpg?v=1781813217","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/call-me-ishmael-a-study-of-melville-1258429683","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}