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- Title
Saint Rip.
- Authors
Thorn, John
- Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on the fictitious character Rip Van Winkle created by Washington Irving in his short story of the same name. He says that Rip was made in May 1819 as the last sketch in Irving's first installment of "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." He says that some critics of Irving commented that certain passages in his "Rip Van Winkle" were direct translations from "Volksagen," published in Bremen, Germany in 1800. Bayard Taylor also described the character in his 1968 "Byways of Europe," as purely Peter Klaus by Otmar. However, he believes that through Rip, Irving had made a role model for both a distant counterculture and for art.
- Subjects
VAN Winkle, Rip (Fictional character); RIP Van Winkle (Short story : Irving); IRVING, Washington, 1783-1859; SKETCH Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The (Book : Irving); TAYLOR, Bayard, 1825-1878; LITERARY characters; FICTION; COPYRIGHT of fictional characters; SHORT story (Literary form); TRANSLATIONS of medieval literature
- Publication
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, 2010, Vol 36, Issue 1/2, p10
- ISSN
1551-7268
- Publication type
Article