介绍一下WashingtonIrving作品的style?还有他著名作品RipVanWinkle象征了美国的什么生活面貌?知道比较麻烦,谢谢大家了.英语答案追加分!!谢谢了...

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介绍一下Washington Irving作品的style?还有他著名作品Rip Van Winkle象征了美国的什么生活面貌?
知道比较麻烦,谢谢大家了.
英语答案追加分!!谢谢了...

Answer 1

As an essayist Irving was not interested in the meaning of nature like Emerson or self-inspection like Montaigne.He observered the vanishing pasts of old Europe,the riverside Creole villages of Louisiana,the old Pawnee hunting grounds of Oklahoma,and how ladies fashion moves from one extreme to the other.'Geoffrey Crayon' was his most prolific fictional mask.Irving once wrote:"There rise authors now and then,who seem proof against the mutability of language,because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature." He was the earliest literary figure of the American abroad,who appeared in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,Gent.,in which also Irving's best-known story 'Rip Van Winkle' was included.It was based on a German folktale,set in the Dutch culture of Pre-Revolutionary War in New York State.
如果你是研究他的话,就看看这段,有关于他作为个essayist的风格,也提到了rip van winkle.觉得你应该自己看,不用翻译了吧.