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Call Me Ishmael

Olson Charles
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801857317
Published
1998-01-23
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight
198 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
164

Author
Olson Charles
Afterword by
Sealts Merton M.

Biographical note

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.

Call Me Ishmael

Olson Charles
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
Olson Charles
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
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Not only important, but apocalyptic. New York Herald Tribune 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 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

First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences--especially Shakespearean ones--on Herman Melville's writing of "Moby-Dick". Olson examines the influence of "King Lear" on Melville's work.
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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.
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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

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Not only important, but apocalyptic. New York Herald Tribune 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 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

First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences--especially Shakespearean ones--on Herman Melville's writing of "Moby-Dick". Olson examines the influence of "King Lear" on Melville's work.
Read more
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.
Read more
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

Product details

ISBN
9780801857317
Published
1998-01-23
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight
198 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
140 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
164

Author
Olson Charles
Afterword by
Sealts Merton M.

Biographical note

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.

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