Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" (1819); students' oral presentation on the intertextuality of the motif of "prolonged sleep" and leap of time.

3 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Washington Irving: brief biography and contextualization of the professional association of literature and journalism in 19th century Anglophone letters.

The literary hoax and the multi-layered persona of (implied) author and narrator:

Possible morals of the story: superficial change; conservantism vs. freedom; critique of US pragmatism; advice on laziness.

Interxtextual association: the dog (Odyssey), Shakespeare. Symbology of names.

http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/09/homework-for-october-3-2016-rip-van.html

Students' oral presentation on the intertextuality of the motif of "prolonged sleep" and leap of time: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/rip-van-winkle-o-imaginario-coletivo-e.html