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华盛顿欧文Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820.
Plot Summary of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• The story is set in 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town，New York，in a secluded（与世隔绝的） glen（峡 谷） called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky（过分瘦长的）, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut（康涅狄格州） who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the rowdy town, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.
What is the truth of this story?
• Rip‟s “the other American dream”---Rip‟s confused state of mind upon waking from his 20-year slumber（睡眠）. How could everything have changed overnight? • a metaphor: The confusion is a true reflection of the psychological difficulty Americans at the time felt in understanding their recent national history. • an illustration of Irving‟s argument that change--- and revolution---upset the natural order of things, and of the fact that Irving never seemed to accept a modern democratic America
WASHINGTON IRVING 华盛顿·欧文
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IRVING
Biography
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Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
CONTENTS
Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
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Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
He settled down in a small village and began the
writing of The Sketch Book
Youth 2
By the time when he was 23 years old (1809),he had roamed England, Holland, France Italy and Hudson Valley. After collecting sufficient original materials for writing and a good practice of editing a journal ,he formed his particular political Idea and writing style .
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EARLY YEARS
The Irving family settled in Manhattan, New York
City, and was part of the city's small, vibrant merchant class when Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783, the same week city residents learned of the British ceasefire that ended the American Revolution; Irving’s mother named him after the hero of the revolution, George Washington. At age six, with the help of a nanny, Irving met his namesake, who was then living in New York after his inauguration as president in 1789. The president blessed young Irving, an encounter Irving later commemorated in a small watercolor painting, which still hangs in his home today. The Irving's lived at 131 William Street at the time of Washington Irving's birth. The family later moved across the street to 128 William St. Several of Washington Irving's older brothers became active New York merchants, and they encouraged their younger brother's literary aspirations, often supporting him financially as he pursued his writing career.
IRVING
Biography
CONTENTS
Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
CONTENTS
Writing style
Evaluation
Major works
Biography
ONE
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
He settled down in a small village and began the
writing of The Sketch Book
Youth 2
By the time when he was 23 years old (1809),he had roamed England, Holland, France Italy and Hudson Valley. After collecting sufficient original materials for writing and a good practice of editing a journal ,he formed his particular political Idea and writing style .
PHOTO
EARLY YEARS
The Irving family settled in Manhattan, New York
City, and was part of the city's small, vibrant merchant class when Washington Irving was born on April 3, 1783, the same week city residents learned of the British ceasefire that ended the American Revolution; Irving’s mother named him after the hero of the revolution, George Washington. At age six, with the help of a nanny, Irving met his namesake, who was then living in New York after his inauguration as president in 1789. The president blessed young Irving, an encounter Irving later commemorated in a small watercolor painting, which still hangs in his home today. The Irving's lived at 131 William Street at the time of Washington Irving's birth. The family later moved across the street to 128 William St. Several of Washington Irving's older brothers became active New York merchants, and they encouraged their younger brother's literary aspirations, often supporting him financially as he pursued his writing career.
华盛顿·欧文
up, he finds himself in a transformed society. Most people in his generation have died, leaving him nearly unidentified. Together with the death of the older generation is the demise of tradition and old life style that Wrinkle was comfortable with. The political jargons, the bustling spirit of the new nation is incomprehensible to him. Through the eyes of Wrinkle, a rough sketch of the American society after independence is seen in perspective.
Plot Summary
• Set in the years before and after the Revolution war, the story “Rip Van Wrinkle” relates the titular protagonist’s supernatural sleep of 20 years and his puzzlement over the changes effected by the establishment of US as a new nation. Rip Van Wrinkle, a hen-packed, goodnatured, good-for-nothing man, lives a peaceful life in the Pre-independent America. In an escape from his shrew wife, he meets some ghosts in the mountains, drinks their alcohol, and falls into a sleep that lasts 20 years.
Plot Summary
• Set in the years before and after the Revolution war, the story “Rip Van Wrinkle” relates the titular protagonist’s supernatural sleep of 20 years and his puzzlement over the changes effected by the establishment of US as a new nation. Rip Van Wrinkle, a hen-packed, goodnatured, good-for-nothing man, lives a peaceful life in the Pre-independent America. In an escape from his shrew wife, he meets some ghosts in the mountains, drinks their alcohol, and falls into a sleep that lasts 20 years.
华盛顿欧文WashingtonIrving解析
篇小说”。
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a
short story by Washington Irving
contained in his collection The Sketch
Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,
written while he was living in Birmingham,
(1783—1856)
--made by xxx
• The STRUCTURE of The PPT
• 1·His life • 2·His career and works • 3·His style • 4·His Contribution to American literature
Washington Irving was born on April 3,1783 into a wealthy New York merchant family,the youngest son of the family with 11 children.
Plot Summary of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• The story is set in 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town，New York，in a secluded（与世隔绝的） glen（峡 谷） called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky（过分瘦长的）, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut（康涅狄格州 Bones" Van Brunt, the rowdy town, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a
short story by Washington Irving
contained in his collection The Sketch
Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,
written while he was living in Birmingham,
(1783—1856)
--made by xxx
• The STRUCTURE of The PPT
• 1·His life • 2·His career and works • 3·His style • 4·His Contribution to American literature
Washington Irving was born on April 3,1783 into a wealthy New York merchant family,the youngest son of the family with 11 children.
Plot Summary of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• The story is set in 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town，New York，in a secluded（与世隔绝的） glen（峡 谷） called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky（过分瘦长的）, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut（康涅狄格州 Bones" Van Brunt, the rowdy town, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.
华盛顿·欧文
II. Literary Achievements
• 1809: A History of New York《纽约外史》 • 1820: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,
Gent. 《见闻札记》in which two folktales: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”(《睡谷传奇》) stand out as world classics. • 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 first prose stylist of American romanticism. His writing marked the beginning of American romanticism.
• 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.
• Now he’s chiefly remembered as the author of “Rip Van Wrinkle” and “The legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
美国文学欣赏WashingtonIrving
(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 crew, who are playing nine-pins.
❖ The stories (including “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”) appeared serially in 1819– 20.
❖ Their enthusiastic reception made Irving the best-known figure in American literature both at home and abroad.
❖ 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.
❖ part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
❖ The story is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War.
Washington-Irving剖析
1. short story Rip Van Winkle 《瑞普 凡 温克尔》 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 《睡谷传奇》
1. short story
A prose narrative that is brief in nature
It also has many of the same characteristics of a novel including characters, setting and plot.
When he was 19, he published his “Jonathan Oldstyle” satires of New York life.
When he was 23, he was admitted to the New York bar. And his older brothers financed his tour of France and Italy.
However, due to length constraints, these characteristics and devices generally may not be as fully developed or as complex as those developed for a full-length novel. The short story usually deals with a single episode and often a single character.
The Van Tassel stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm. Rows of pigeons were enjoying the sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard.
1. short story
A prose narrative that is brief in nature
It also has many of the same characteristics of a novel including characters, setting and plot.
When he was 19, he published his “Jonathan Oldstyle” satires of New York life.
When he was 23, he was admitted to the New York bar. And his older brothers financed his tour of France and Italy.
However, due to length constraints, these characteristics and devices generally may not be as fully developed or as complex as those developed for a full-length novel. The short story usually deals with a single episode and often a single character.
The Van Tassel stronghold was situated on the banks of the Hudson, in one of those green, sheltered, fertile nooks in which the Dutch farmers are so fond of nestling. A great elm tree spread its broad branches over it, at the foot of which bubbled up a spring of the softest and sweetest water. Hard by the farmhouse was a vast barn, every window and crevice of which seemed bursting forth with the treasures of the farm. Rows of pigeons were enjoying the sunshine on the roof. Sleek unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens. A stately squadron of snowy geese were riding in an adjoining pond, convoying whole fleets of ducks; regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard.
Washington-Irving--欧文
❖ Certain it is that he was a great favorite among all the good wives of the village, who, as usual with the amiable sex, took his part in all family squabbles, and never failed, whenever they talked those matters over in their evening gossipings, to lay all the blame on Dame Van Winkle. The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached.
Tales of a Traveler (1824) 《游客述异》
Life of George Washington (1855-1859) 《华盛顿传》
II. Further Reading
1. Rip Van Winkle [TB. P.48] a. Background Information b. Story (the Kaatskill Mountains, the Hudson
❖ Their tempers, doubtless, are rendered pliant and malleable in the fiery furnace of domestic tribulation, and a curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and longsuffering. A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed.
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Works genre
• His works is usually based in the England. There are romantic legend,the description of America manners and customs and travel diary.
• Most of his works' theme which used frequently is from Europe.
After travelling and studing Walt Scott's novels for a while, Irving settled down in a small villiage and began to write "The Sketch Book "
In 1815,driven by his sorrow , Irving sailed again for England,thus stayed abroad for 17 years.
Washington Irving’s Writing style
Writing style
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Works genre Language style Plot structure
Works genre
• Most of his works are informal essay and short story.
• One autumn day he escapes his nagging （唠叨的） wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering strangely dressed men who are playing nine-pin, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep.
• As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman，who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball（意外的炮弹） during ‘some nameless battle” of the American Revolution War, and who “rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head’. Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was ‘to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related’.
篇小说”。
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a
short story by Washington Irving
contained in his collection The Sketch
Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,
written while he was living in Birmingham,
• “He is one of those happy mortals, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.”
In the novel he use the American humorous
language tells a absurd story.
He is discontented with the American society . And it express his have
deep love for the villeggiatura（乡村生
《睡谷的传说》
The legend of the Sleepy Hollow
《睡谷的传说》 （The legend of the Sleepy
Hollow）
是美国作家华盛顿·欧文 Washington Irving创作的著名短篇 小说，包含在他的著名散文集 《见闻札记》中。它与华盛 顿·欧文的另外两篇短篇小说 《瑞普·凡·温克尔》、《鬼 新郎》被称为“最早的现代短
活） .
“Rip Van Winkle”
• Setting: Hudson River Valley (New England) in the years before
and after the American Revolutionary War.
• Rip Van Winkle: a simple, good-natured, and hen-pecked man. He does everything except take care of his own farm and family. He helps everyone except his wife and his own folks. So he is welcome everywhere except at home.
• He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place.
• a metaphor: The confusion is a true reflection of the psychological difficulty Americans at the time felt in understanding their recent national history.
Plot Summary of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
• The story is set in 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town，New York，in a secluded（与世隔绝的） glen（峡 谷） called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky（过分瘦长的）, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut（康涅狄格州） who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the rowdy town, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer.
England, and first published in 1820.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was based on a German folktale, set in the Dutch culture of Post-Revolutionary War in New York State. The original folktale was recorded by Karl Musäus.
1.Imitative,but highly skillful. 2. a bit of sentimental at times. 3.Avoided moralizing as much as possible. 4.Wrote to amuse and entertain. 5.Vivid and true. 6.With great humor.
• an illustration of Irving’s argument that change--- and revolution---upset the natural order of things, and of the fact that Irving never seemed to accept a modern democratic America
What is the truth of this story?
• Rip’s “the other American dream”---Rip’s confused state of mind upon waking from his 20-year slumber（睡眠）. How could everything have changed overnight?
• An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter eventually puts him up. As Rip resumes his habit of idleness in the village, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, certain hen-pecked husbands especially wish they shared Rip's luck.