"Rip Van Winkle": una obra maestra de la historia corta americana de interés etnográfico

Joaquín José Cuéllar Trasorras

doi:10.18172/cif.5405

Authors

Joaquín José Cuéllar Trasorras Universidad de Almería http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7527-7213

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/cif.5405

Keywords:

Rip Van Winkle, literary ethnography, Irving’s short story, American short story

Abstract

The article studies the importance of “Rip Van Winkle” (Irving, 1819) in the American short story, as well as in literary ethnography. First, a comparison is made between classical American literature and Irving to determine the characteristics of the story in question. Next, reference is made to literary critics such as Ross, Stanley, and Mengeling, who have studied the work from various perspectives. In the case of Ross, it is him who discovers that RVW is based on a German legend of Frederick Barbarossa from the 12th century. Finally, there is an ethnographic study of eighteenth-century New York society and more specifically of the Dutch settlements in that area, which were called the New Amsterdam. All through the historical brushstrokes that the work leaves in its unforgettable story.

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Author Biography

Joaquín José Cuéllar Trasorras, Universidad de Almería

Doctor en Humanidades por la Universidad de Almería (2015). Es especialista en estudios interdisciplinarios de Antropología y Literatura española, inglesa y americana. Autor de monográficos y artículos sobre ESL (English as a Second Language), es miembro del grupo de investigación HUM 602: Lenguaje y Pensamiento: Relaciones de significación en el léxico y en obras literarias.

Actualmente trabaja como profesor sustituto interino en el Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Almería

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