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Title: Call Me Ishmael by Charles Olson, Merton M. Sealts Jr ISBN: 0-8018-5731-7 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Literary criticism becomes art
Comment: It should come as no surprise that the world's greatest novel would inspire the world's greatest essay of literary criticism. Sadly, Olson's ideas did not appeal to members of the elite Melville Society, and to this day they still consider him a "crank." A real pity, because Olson will be remembered long after they are forgotten.
Rating: 5
Summary: You will seek the White Whale as Ahab did.
Comment: In brief, "Call Me Ishmael" is the most interesting piece of literary criticism I've ever read. Foreshadowing his future leanings as a poet, Olson writes "Ishmael" more like a prose poem than stodgy dissertation. Yet, however unique the form, it seems strangely predetermined. For it is only through a poetic nature that it could distill such huge, multilayered concepts into an accessible and short (119 pg.) essay. This reissue--it was first published in 1947--takes the reader through Shakespearean influence on "Moby Dick," Melville's struggle with faith, and the importance of place--to name only three examples. The future rector of the short-lived, yet highly influential, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, creates an energy out of words bested only by "The Whale" itself. As Olson stated to his colleague, Merton Sealts, Jr., who wrote the new afterword to the essay: "I see that The White Death has descended upon You too." And it will upon you as well. After reading this incisive, lyrical, and engaging piece, you will want to return to "Moby Dick" before you've closed its pages.
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Title: New Essays on Moby-Dick by Richard H. Brodhead, Emory Elliot ISBN: 0521317886 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 November, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Mariners, Renegades & Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live in (Reencounters With Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Americas) by C. L. R. James, Donald E. Pease ISBN: 158465094X Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert S. Levine ISBN: 052155571X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) by Hershel Parker ISBN: 0801868920 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (The Literary A to Z Series) by Lisa Olson Paddock, Carl E. Rollyson ISBN: 0816041601 Publisher: Checkmark Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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