Nu har jag äntligen kommit till slutet av denna

”classic of American literary criticism”

Det var en Mors dagspresent som jag glatt gav mig i kast med, hoppades på något ”lättläst” så här i sommartid…

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det visade sig vara en väldigt  klassisk och ambitiös kritik:

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.

Sedan jag väl insett detta har jag med stor behållning, sakta och eftertänksamt

tillägnat mig innehållet!

SÅLEDES:

On a higher level!