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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.
Author: Charles Olson
ISBN-10: 1258429683
ISBN-13: 9781258429683
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2012
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d
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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