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.
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

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
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.

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

a colossal 5-volume biography
of George Washington

a biography of Christopher Columbus is still considered a classic.
Irving’s grave
III. Major Works


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.
(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》
purposes
------------------------------------------------------------------------belletrist n. 纯文学作者

5. the first American writer to earn his living solely by his pen
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
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.


(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.

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

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.
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

3. America’s first genuine internationally bestselling a belletrist in American literature, writing for pleasure at a
time when writing was practical and for useful


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
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
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

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