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IV. Literary Achievements V. Style VI. Contributions
I. Position in American literature
Father of American literature
1. the first American (true) literary writer 2. the first American man of letters
(1809: A History of New York《纽约外 史》 1820: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 《见闻札记》 Two folktales: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”(《睡 谷传奇》) 1822: Bracebridge Hall《布雷斯勃列 奇庄园》 1824: Tales of a Traveller 《游客谈》 1835: A Tour of the Prairies《大草原 游记》
The stories (including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”) appeared serially in 1819– 20.
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Their enthusiastic reception made Irving the best-known figure in American literature both at home and abroad.
(3) The plot
One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains.
There he encounters strangely dressed men,
rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's
In 1820, Irving published The Sketch Book under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.
The hit book made Irving the
first American author to gain
real fame in Europe.
named for George Washington; his parents
were admirers of General Washington.
Irving was born in 1783, the
year in which Benjamin
Franklin signed at Paris the
Rip Van Winkle
2. “Rip Van Winkle”
(1) introduction (2) Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist (3) The plot
(1) introduction
similar to a 3rd-century Chinese tale of Ranka retold in Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
climax.
many authors well known for it including
Edgar Allan Poe, 埃德加· 爱伦· 坡
O Henry, 欧· 亨利
Ernest Hemingway, 海明威
Poe first theorized on the structure and purpose of the short story.
Style
graceful, refined, fluent and dignified sentimental, romantic
IV. Comment
The first American author to win international recognition The first prose stylist of American romanticism In his Sketch Book appeared the first modern American short stories. His essays are models of perfect English. Irving created humor by the way he said things: 1)He delighted in making ironic remarks which say just the opposite of what he meant. 2) He used dignified words to produce a half-mocking effect. 3) He was also fond of exaggerating the seriousness of situations. He not only provided a young nation with humorous, fictional accounts of the colonial past but also helped create an American mythology which is made up of stories about the American past so widely read as to be familiar to nearly every American.
forward to Poe.
10. the messenger sent from the new world to the old world
11. “the American Goldsmith”
Mark Twain also is called
the Father of American
treaty of peace with England
after the Revolutionary War.
Irving's mother was born in England
studied law amused himself by writing for periodicals From 1804 to 1806 his older brothers financed his tour of France and Italy.
Literature
the true Father of American Literature
II. life and literary career
Born: 3 April 1783 Birthplace: New York, New York Died: 28 November 1859
Under the pseudonym Diedrich
Knickerbocker, he published A
History of New York (1809), a
satire that has been called the
first great book of comic literature written by an American.
a colossal 5-volume biography
of George Washington
a biography of Christopher Columbus is still considered a classic.
Irving’s grave
III. Major Works
short story
a prose narrative that is brief in nature
also has many of the same characteristics of a novel
including characters, setting
and plot.
However, due to length constraints, these characteristics and devices generally may not be as fully developed or as complex as those developed for a fulllength novel.
The short story usually deals
with a single episode and
often a single character.
The short story frequently
also lacks denouement (n. 结
局 ), ending instead at its
crew, who are playing nine-pins.
After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else.
The story is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War.
(2) Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist
a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife
6. the first American literary humorist 7. the first modern short story writer
8. the first to write history and biography as
entertainment
9. His use of the gothic looks
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
“Rip Van Winkle” （《瑞普· 温克尔》) 凡·
Washington Irving(1783-1859)
I. Position in American literature II. Life
III. Works
purposes
------------------------------------------------------------------------belletrist n. 纯文学作者
5. the first American writer to earn his living solely by his pen
3. America’s first genuine internationally bestselling author
4. the first belletrist in American literature, writing for pleasure at a
time when writing was practical and for useful
In search of colorful
material, he made a journey
to the frontier and wrote
about the American West in
A Tour of the Prairies (《大
草原游记》,1835).
Late life:
I. Position in American literature
Father of American literature
1. the first American (true) literary writer 2. the first American man of letters
(1809: A History of New York《纽约外 史》 1820: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 《见闻札记》 Two folktales: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”(《睡 谷传奇》) 1822: Bracebridge Hall《布雷斯勃列 奇庄园》 1824: Tales of a Traveller 《游客谈》 1835: A Tour of the Prairies《大草原 游记》
The stories (including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”) appeared serially in 1819– 20.
ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้
Their enthusiastic reception made Irving the best-known figure in American literature both at home and abroad.
(3) The plot
One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains.
There he encounters strangely dressed men,
rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's
In 1820, Irving published The Sketch Book under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon.
The hit book made Irving the
first American author to gain
real fame in Europe.
named for George Washington; his parents
were admirers of General Washington.
Irving was born in 1783, the
year in which Benjamin
Franklin signed at Paris the
Rip Van Winkle
2. “Rip Van Winkle”
(1) introduction (2) Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist (3) The plot
(1) introduction
similar to a 3rd-century Chinese tale of Ranka retold in Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
climax.
many authors well known for it including
Edgar Allan Poe, 埃德加· 爱伦· 坡
O Henry, 欧· 亨利
Ernest Hemingway, 海明威
Poe first theorized on the structure and purpose of the short story.
Style
graceful, refined, fluent and dignified sentimental, romantic
IV. Comment
The first American author to win international recognition The first prose stylist of American romanticism In his Sketch Book appeared the first modern American short stories. His essays are models of perfect English. Irving created humor by the way he said things: 1)He delighted in making ironic remarks which say just the opposite of what he meant. 2) He used dignified words to produce a half-mocking effect. 3) He was also fond of exaggerating the seriousness of situations. He not only provided a young nation with humorous, fictional accounts of the colonial past but also helped create an American mythology which is made up of stories about the American past so widely read as to be familiar to nearly every American.
forward to Poe.
10. the messenger sent from the new world to the old world
11. “the American Goldsmith”
Mark Twain also is called
the Father of American
treaty of peace with England
after the Revolutionary War.
Irving's mother was born in England
studied law amused himself by writing for periodicals From 1804 to 1806 his older brothers financed his tour of France and Italy.
Literature
the true Father of American Literature
II. life and literary career
Born: 3 April 1783 Birthplace: New York, New York Died: 28 November 1859
Under the pseudonym Diedrich
Knickerbocker, he published A
History of New York (1809), a
satire that has been called the
first great book of comic literature written by an American.
a colossal 5-volume biography
of George Washington
a biography of Christopher Columbus is still considered a classic.
Irving’s grave
III. Major Works
short story
a prose narrative that is brief in nature
also has many of the same characteristics of a novel
including characters, setting
and plot.
However, due to length constraints, these characteristics and devices generally may not be as fully developed or as complex as those developed for a fulllength novel.
The short story usually deals
with a single episode and
often a single character.
The short story frequently
also lacks denouement (n. 结
局 ), ending instead at its
crew, who are playing nine-pins.
After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else.
The story is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War.
(2) Rip Van Winkle: the protagonist
a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife
6. the first American literary humorist 7. the first modern short story writer
8. the first to write history and biography as
entertainment
9. His use of the gothic looks
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
“Rip Van Winkle” （《瑞普· 温克尔》) 凡·
Washington Irving(1783-1859)
I. Position in American literature II. Life
III. Works
purposes
------------------------------------------------------------------------belletrist n. 纯文学作者
5. the first American writer to earn his living solely by his pen
3. America’s first genuine internationally bestselling author
4. the first belletrist in American literature, writing for pleasure at a
time when writing was practical and for useful
In search of colorful
material, he made a journey
to the frontier and wrote
about the American West in
A Tour of the Prairies (《大
草原游记》,1835).
Late life: