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        <title><![CDATA[This question remains somewhat unclear to me. On top of that there were...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This question remains somewhat unclear to me. On top of that there were many film versions of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. I do not know what you are referring to. So, I will stick to the text by Irving.
The cultural values that you get from a literary text is often concerned with the issues it evokes and tackles. Let us see a few of them as in Rip Van Winkle
1. The idea of identity as something fluid, changable with time.
2. The...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle," after Rip has slept for twenty...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle," after Rip has slept for twenty years, he returns to his home, which now exists in post-Revolutionary times.  Most evident of all is the change in the "character" of the society of his village. In the story, Irving writes,

The very character of people seemed changed.  Thjere was a busy, bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility.

In the film, this...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:01:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What film do you mean ? There were several, the one in 1978 and then...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What film do you mean ? There were several, the one in 1978 and then 1984 and the claymation film. Of course the oldest one, in 1896 is my favorite version. (You can see it on utube). The actor was  Joseph Jefferson; and he was famous for his stage plays of Rip Van Winkle. He was the main actor in the  series of short films by The American Mutoscope &amp; Biograph Company in 1896.
I liked the scene after he wakes up, inthe 1896 version, he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:32:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I do not know much about the film, but since you mention Washington...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I do not know much about the film, but since you mention Washington Irving, I will something about the themes and the authorial intention of the story "Rip Van Winkle".
The story obviously uses a fairy-tale or fantasy mode to raise some very philosophical issues about time, identity, memory and so on. Rip's way too long sleep and awakening into a new American landscape (not just naturally, but socio-politically too) evokes the most fundamental...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:57:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What lessons that Washington Irving want to teach us through "Rip van...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What lessons that Washington Irving want to teach us through "Rip van Winkle" film?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What situations do you like most in "Rip Van Winkle" film by Washington...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What situations do you like most in "Rip Van Winkle" film by Washington Irving?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:35:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What cultural vaules do you like most in Rip Van Winkle?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What cultural vaules do you like most in Rip Van Winkle?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Rip is a hen-pecked husband who takes a walk in the woods and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Rip is a hen-pecked husband who takes a walk in the woods and falls asleep--for a very long time--in Washington Irving's early American short story, "Rip van Winkle." Set in New York's Catskill Mountains around 1770, Rip is a popular fellow in the village but a terrible farmer. His wife nags him constantly, especially about his lazy streak, so to avoid her complaining, he takes a long walk in the woods overlooking the Hudson River....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:20:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What situations represent a changing in history periods in "Rip Van...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What situations represent a changing in history periods in "Rip Van Winkle" film by Washington Irving?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:13:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could you please give me the summary of "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Could you please give me the summary of "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:22:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[dont let time past you by]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[dont let time past you by]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:04:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strangely enough, Rip represents a very modern American stereotype.  He...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Strangely enough, Rip represents a very modern American stereotype.  He is the typical hen-pecked husband.  Americans are accustomed to seeing his type of character on many old and new "family" sit-coms.  The wife is always on his case about something, whether it's work, his behavior, or his socializing.
He also represents the lazy man.  While his character is not representative of all men, Irving certainly must have observed his type...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:15:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What American stereotype do you see in "Rip Van Winkle's" characters?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What American stereotype do you see in "Rip Van Winkle's" characters?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:15:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The narrator of "Rip Van Winkle" was Diedrich Knickerbocker. It's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The narrator of "Rip Van Winkle" was Diedrich Knickerbocker. It's actually Washington Irving pen name.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:29:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The centre theme for romantic literature is a admiration of the natural...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The centre theme for romantic literature is a admiration of the natural environment. The fact that Rio Van Winkle left the city and venture towards unexplored landscapes and explore the rugged mountains , where he underwent some life-changing and inexplicable experiences, which is a common romantic plot for most stories.
Rip was very troubled with his wife and decided to break free from the stressing city life, mainly his past and explore new...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:22:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He is known to be a kind and helpful man in front of his neighbors and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He is known to be a kind and helpful man in front of his neighbors and is always eager to play with other kids or help out in other housework. But to his wife, he would be known as a lazy and useless man, who doesn't care for his children and his wife and doesn't take care of the house and leaves it unattended
When he was drunk in liquor and falls fast asleep, he was transported 20 years later through time, where the American Revolution had...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:06:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Washington Irving had a genius for inventing comic fictional...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Washington Irving had a genius for inventing comic fictional narrators.  In fact, he did not sign his real name to his work until he was over fifty.  He had two narrators, Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent., a caricature of the British writers who could not accept the simple values of the new nation, and Diedrich Knickerbocker, a Dutchman. He it is who leaves the tale of Rip van Winkle, and the story is framed by an unknown writer.
Irving writes,

The...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The plot of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is framed before and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The plot of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is framed before and after by material that does not advance the plot. The purpose of the material which frames the plot is to create the illusion that the story is fact and not fiction.
Washington Iriving with tongue in cheek irony attests in the opening section of the frame by means of the quotation in verse:

By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday,
Truth is a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:32:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who was the narrator of "Rip van Wrinkle" by Washington Irving?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who was the narrator of "Rip van Wrinkle" by Washington Irving?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:18:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Politically, the inn obviously represents life before the American...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Politically, the inn obviously represents life before the American Revolution and life afterwards.  In the narrator's first description of the inn, he points out the

"rubicund portrait portrait of his majesty George the Third" (Paragraph 13),

demonstrating that before Rip's "deep sleep," the colonies are still under British rule.  When Rip wakes up and eventually resumes life in the small community, he returns to the inn where

"instead...]]></description>
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