欧文和库伯

• The story has become a part of cultural mythology: even for those who have never read the original story, • "Rip Van Winkle" means either a person who sleeps for a long period of time, or one who is inexplicably (perhaps even blissfully) unaware of current events.
Irving’s Major Works
his 1st book
a success, won him popularity
History of New York from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty «纽约外史»
Great Changes
The village inn
The British colonial America George III
Large, wooded building
The United States of American George Washington
“Rip Van Winkle”
Characters
• Rip Van Winkle - a henpecked husband who loathes 'profitable labor'. • Dame Van Winkle - Rip Van Winkle's cantankerous wife. • Rip - Rip Van Winkle's son.
Rip Van Winkle
• Narrative elements (1): 3part structure & plot • Beginning – Rip as a hen-pecked husband; • Middle – his venture into Katskills; • End – his return
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At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape. It is a little village of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists,
the 1st one to write the short story-The Sketch Book , which marked the beginning of American Romanticism
Irving’s career
his 1st book 1809--1832 two phases the remaining years of his life "English”, subjects: English, European “American”, secondary importance
so famous, a part of the American cultural tradition marks a distinct step in the development of the short-story from a German source---changed the setting and added conflicts of his own to make it American
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In that same village, and in one of these very houses, there lived many years since, while the country was yet a province of Great Britain, a simple good-natured fellow of the name of Rip Van Winkle.
Early Romantic Period
1. Washington Irving (华盛顿·欧文) 2. James Fennimore Cooper (库珀)
Washing Irving (17831859)
born into a wealthy hant family from a very early age, read widely, wrote poems, essays, and plays studied law but loved writing more
• Judith Gardenier - Rip Van Winkle's daughter.
• Derrick Van Bummel - the local schoolmaster and later a member of Congress.
• Nicholas Vedder - landlord of the local inn where menfolk congregate.
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A kindhearted farmer Rip Van Winkle who helped a stranger distribute wine on a mountain slope. He drank a little and soon fell asleep. When he woke and went back to the village, it was 20 years later.
The Sketch Book
«见闻札记»
won him international recognition “Rip Van Winkle” “瑞普凡温可尔”
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” “睡谷的传说”
Irving’s Major Works
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
satirized politics, history and government of 19th century America
Irving’s Major Works
first in installment in America, then in full version in England
«攻克格拉纳达»
The History of the Life and Voyages
of Christopher Columbus
The Alhambra
«哥伦布的生平和航行史» «阿尔罕伯拉» he gathered material for these books in Spain
Irving’s Major Works
Biographies:
Life of Oliver Goldsmith
«哥德斯密斯传»
Life of Washington
«华盛顿传»
Irving’s contribution
the first American to win international fame father of American literature the messenger sent from the new world to the old world
• Everything had changed. The most important change was the War of Independence had been won and the portrait of King George of Britain was replaced by American President George Washington.
Irving’s Style
beautiful
highly skillful providing a model for the narrative of the future “The style is the man,”文如其人 striking features
•avoided moralizing; wrote to amuse and entertain, •was good at enveloping his stories in an atmosphere, •his characters are vivid and true •filled with humor •musical language
Irving was unwilling to accept a modern democratic America. both Winkle and Irving prefer the past and a dream-like world
• The story
“Rip Van Winkle”
• Q: • If you fell asleep today and awakened 20 years from now, what questions would you ask the first person you saw? • Do you think the change is necessary or not? Why or why not? • What is Rip’s attitude to the change and the modern democratic America? • What is Irving’s attitude?