{"product_id":"call-me-ishmael-a-study-of-melville-paperback","title":"Call Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Olson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 14, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42172075737223,"sku":"9781258429683","price":37.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8a1f3e4b07fba3371858be4cccdf7c4f.webp?v=1733360223","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/call-me-ishmael-a-study-of-melville-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}