Call Me Ishmael - Brossura

Olson, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0872860361 ISBN 13: 9780872860360

Casa editrice: City Lights Books, 1981

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: City Lights Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0872860361
• ISBN 13: 9780872860360
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile