Irving’s Ambivalence toward the “New” America in “Rip VanWinkle”

• 作者: 王丹
• 来源期刊: 海外英语
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: "Rip VAN Winkle" past PRESENT binary OPPOSITION am
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（19）
• 页码范围: 186-187
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: I712.074

摘要

Set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War, Irving’s short story"Rip Van Winkle"is frequently read as a mythic escape from history; however, Irving’s vision of history is far more complicated than what it appears to be in the sense that Irving presents his ambivalent attitudes toward the new America the Revolution created by hiding his discourse of implicitly criticizing the American Revolution’s legacy under the cover of his explicit or public celebration of the Revolution.