Call Me Ishmael

By: Charles Olson, Merton M. Sealts (Afterword by)

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Paperback | 14 December 1997

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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

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-Dicks," it was the experimental style and organization of the book that generated the most controversy.

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""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.""

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Prologue	p. 3
Fact
Call me Ishmael	p. 11
What Lies Under	p. 16
Usufruct	p. 26
Source: Shakespeare
The Discovery of Moby-Dick	p. 35
American Shiloh	p. 41
Man, to Man	p. 44
King Lear	p. 47
A Moby-Dick Manuscript	p. 52
Captain Ahab and His Fool	p. 59
The Act	p. 64
Dromenon	p. 77
The Book of the Law of the Blood	p. 81
Loss: Christ	p. 89
A Last Fact	p. 109
The Conclusion: Pacific Man	p. 113
Afterword: On Olson and Melville	p. 121
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