{"product_id":"call-me-ishmael","title":"Call Me Ishmael","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCall Me Ishmael\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCharles Olson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780801857317\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eJohns Hopkins University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e60532nd\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e164\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most stimulating essays ever written on \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, and for that matter on any piece of literature, and the forces behind it.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences--especially Shakespearean ones--on Melville's writing of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the \"theory of the two \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dicks\u003c\/i\u003e,\" Olson argues that there were two versions of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, and that Melville's reading \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003es,\" it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Call Me Ishmael | Charles Olson | Paperback | 9780801857317 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1775516","offer_id":49724958769304,"sku":"1775516","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/618YKi3wHdL.jpg?v=1787321446","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/call-me-ishmael","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}