Washington Irving's<i>Rip Van Winkle</i>: A Dangerous Critique of a New Nation

Wyman, Sarah

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“…Thus, it comes as no surprise that Romantic writers are concerned with nationalism and movements of political independence. In this case, "Rip Van Winkle" can also be regarded as a Romantic literary work because not only does Washington Irving depict the American Revolution but he also questions its value when the country itself is still coming to terms with the new situation (Wyman, 2010). When Rip heads to the mountains, the United States is a dependent country ruled by Great Britain.…”

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Romanticism in the North American Short Story

Auñón¹

2021

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El Romanticismo fue un movimiento extremadamente influyente que surgió a finales del siglo 18 y que tuvo un gran impacto en varias áreas, incluida la literatura. Innumerables escritores han representado en sus obras características esenciales del Romanticismo como la representación de horror y emociones intensas, el uso de entornos naturales exóticos y salvajes, el nacionalismo, el individualismo, la mente humana, y el simbolismo, entre muchas otras. En este artículo, se muestra cómo el Romanticismo influyó, en concreto, la narrativa breve norteamericana analizando cinco obras: “Rip Van Winkle,” de Washington Irving; “The Minister’s Black Veil,” de Nathaniel Hawthorne; “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” de Herman Melville; y “The Minister’s Black Veil” y “The Tell-Tale Heart,” de Edgar Allan Poe. Los resultados que se han obtenido de este análisis han demostrado que estas cinco historias breves se pueden considerar trabajos románticos porque reflejan múltiples características del Romanticismo. De hecho, estos autores retratan las peculiaridades de los dos sub-campos más importantes del Romanticismo Americano conocidos como “Romanticismo Claro” y “Romanticismo Oscuro.” Romanticism was an extremely influential movement which flourished at the end of the 18th century and which had a huge impact on various areas, including literature. Countless writers have represented in their works key Romantic features such as the depiction of horror and intense emotions, the use of exotic and wild natural settings, nationalism, individualism, the reproduction of the human psyche, and symbolism, among many others. In this paper, it is shown how the Romantic Movement influenced, more specifically, the North American short story by analysing five works: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The results which have been obtained from this analysis have demonstrated that these five short stories can be considered as Romantic works because they reflect multiple characteristics of the Romantic Movement. In fact, these writers portray the peculiarities of the most important subfields of American Romanticism, which are known as “Light Romanticism” and “Dark Romanticism.”

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“…65) Lost in a new world as he wanders between the past and the present, Rip wants to go back to the past and recover his life. In such a way, Washington Irving shows through the main character of the story that, as opposed to the past, the future America is stressful, unforeseeable, and chaotic (Wyman, 2010).…”

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Romanticism in the North American Short Story

Auñón¹

2021

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“…Nonetheless, it is hard to dispute that the works which Irving produced in the later phases of his career have not earned due regard up to now (Wyman, 2010). This may be on account of the fact that the large part of these pieces comprises of less romantic and seemingly nonfictional travel writings and biographies, rather than imaginary stories which, albeit understandably, are more popular subjects for literary criticism by ordinary.…”

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The Object-Oriented Aspect of Irving’s a Tour on the Prairies

Mikado

2019

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This brief paper has basically two aims. First, it intends to introduce object-oriented ontology (OOO), a branch of contemporary thought which regards everything as an individual “object” of equal standing, as a potentially effective theoretical framework to examine a literary text, especially in order to explore the complexity of interactions between/among both human and nonhuman objects on a horizontal plane. Second, it analyzes how the narrator of A Tour on the Prairies, one of the long-neglected texts of Washington Irving, gradually begins to question the naive human/object binary and broadens his horizons through an encounter with another object. Specifically, I examined a series of the contacts which the narrator makes with buffaloes, and then demonstrated how he, though taking a naïve, human-centered schema in the beginning, gradually attains the liberal perspective through the recognition that the object before him is a being that is ontologically equal with him. I concluded the argument by attesting that the text, albeit in a gentle manner, invited us to see the world and existences in it with a more liberal—i.e. object-oriented—perspective.

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Rip Van Winkle: el héroe improductivo

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Reyes

2023

An. de Let. Mod.

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A doscientos años de la publicación de la obra de Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle (1820), la caracterización del protagonista que más ha prevalecido es la de un individuo perezoso, despreocupado e improductivo. A lo largo de la obra, el personaje es retratado como alguien que muestra poco interés en ocuparse en algún trabajo que le proporcione beneficios económicos. Presionado por las expectativas de la sociedad que lo conminan a conducirse como un “buen marido”, Van Winkle elude sus obligaciones domésticas y opta por vagabundear en una montaña cercana. En este artículo se propone una lectura del relato a la luz de algunas claves del pensamiento del filósofo Byung-Chul Han, concretamente las concernientes al concepto de vita contemplativa, cuya exposición se desglosa en El aroma del tiempo (2015) y La sociedad del cansancio (2017). El análisis ilumina una faceta distinta del personaje y lo muestra como un hombre sensible, inclinado a adentrarse en un estado contemplativo. Se concluye que la actitud de Van Winkle hacia la vida expresa un rechazo ante la inevitable llegada del progreso y simboliza la inefable permanencia de un mundo que se resiste a cambiar ante la inminente urbanización provocada por la industrialización. En tal sentido, su conducta representa una dura crítica hacia el imperativo de la productividad dentro del contexto de la sociedad norteamericana de principios del siglo diecinueve.

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Washington Irving'sRip Van Winkle: A Dangerous Critique of a New Nation

Cited by 7 publications

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Romanticism in the North American Short Story

Romanticism in the North American Short Story

The Object-Oriented Aspect of Irving’s a Tour on the Prairies

Rip Van Winkle: el héroe improductivo

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