{"product_id":"call-me-ishmael-charles-olson-9781258429683","title":"Call Me Ishmael: A Study Of Melville","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Olson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1258429683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781258429683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Licensing, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Olson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43924627325183,"sku":"9781258429683","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3b79260c-35f8-435c-bfcc-4015db63eb71.jpg?v=1681072530","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/call-me-ishmael-charles-olson-9781258429683","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}