WASHINGTON IRVING'S FAMOUS STORY "RIP VAN WINKLE"
Keywords:
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle, American literature, romanticism, historical context, symbolism, transition period, literary analysisAbstract
This article explores the major themes, artistic style, and historical-contextual analysis of Washington Irving’s renowned story Rip Van Winkle. The story captures the social transformations, human values, and attitudes toward modernity in 18th–19th century American society through a unique narrative technique. The protagonist’s 20-year sleep serves as a symbolic device to reflect on transitional thinking and societal contrasts. The article also examines Irving’s romantic style and the story’s significance within world literature.
References
Bloom, H. (2014). Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. Chelsea House Publishers.
Burstein, A. (2015). America’s Jubilee: How in 1826 a generation remembered fifty years of independence. Vintage Books.
Folsom, J. K. (2016). The American myth: A study of the idea of freedom. Harvard University Press.
Larkin, E. (2017). The Romantic Legacy of Washington Irving. The University of Iowa Press.
Martin, T. (2018). Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents. Bedford/St. Martin's.
Person, L. S. (2019). The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism. Cambridge University Press.
Reynolds, D. S. (2020). Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. Harvard University Press.
Smith, A. (2021). Historical memory and national identity in early American literature. Oxford University Press.
Tokhtayev, Sh. (2016). History of Western literature. Tashkent: National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan.
Khudoyberdiyev, A. (2010). Literary-aesthetic views and Western romanticism. Tashkent: Science publishing house.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
