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    The Legend of Washington Irving Washington Irving is known throughout the literary community as a very well known author and writer. He has written famous books such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving Traveled a lot during his lifetime and encountered things many people would find uncanny or strange. Most people think that Irving's work were just out of randomness or a spontaneous celebration of ideas. In reality, Washington Irving's life and travels abroad, helped inspire

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    Washington Irving – American Literature Pioneer American literature greatly flourished in the nineteenth century through remarkable works of American Romantic authors. Among these people was Washington Irving who achieved international fame for his fictional works as well as for his biographies and historical writings. Irving also advocated for writing as a legitimate career, and argued for stronger laws to protect writers from copyright infringement (Bio). Washington Irving exemplified the Romantic

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    Washington Irving is one of the incomparable of the Romantics, composed work various unquestionably comprehended stories that we all know and warmth started from this man. Irving drove a charming presence with various refinements and titles, from all around all through the world. He did various distinctive things other than create, though making is the thing that injury up giving him his name. Irving drove to a great degree captivating life, and a long one for the time period too. He was considered

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    His childhood of theatre brought him a love for stories with intricate plots. His college experiences that made him question his sexually brough him into the world of the (generally) unaccepted. John Irving and his wife have three sons, one of which is openly gay. Irving writes about the unfortunate, the unexpected and the unaccepted. One novel includes a bi character as well as two transgender women (In One Person). One even has an orphan who grows up to become an abortionist after a traumatic experience

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    The year Washington Irving was born, 1783, “was of some note in the history of the new republic” because it was that same year that the American Revolutionary War ended (Neider xi). Although Irving “distinguished himself in a variety of genres” including “essay, sketch, history, travel, humor, and short stories”, during the later years of his life, his writings concentrated on travel and history (May 519). His first book included “Rip Van Winkle”, which was loosely based on Germany's legends (“Washington

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    We know that Washington Irving created many distinct characters in his works. Some of his characters see and try to find happiness and wealth in different things. Irving gave a great depiction of an American Dream under the aim of becoming happy and immediately wealthy no matter how it would be happened. If Irving in “Rip Van Winkle” created the character Rip who saw the happiness in life without his nagging wife, in

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    Irvings American Progeny Essay

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    Irvings American Progeny Washington Irving had the unique opportunity of helping a new nation forge its own identity. America, fresh out of the revolution, looked for an author to take charge and create something that seemed to be missing from the newly born nation. He took this responsibility seriously and made a mythology that founded an American literary tradition. He took bits and pieces from the Old World and incorporated them into the New in such a manner that what he wrote appeared original

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    “Rip Van Winkle” & the Parallel to Crises in Midlife “Rip Van Winkle” is an American short story by Washington Irving. Published in 1819, it is a quaint essential piece of American Literature. The story is narrated by Deidrich Knickerbocker, a character created by Washington Irving. Knickerbocker tells of the life of old man Rip Van Winkle and how he slept for twenty years among the trees in the Kaatskill mountains and returned one day to a new time, only to find that his home and all his friends

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    Encompassing over one hundred years, Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin narrates the story of America’s greatest songwriter. While the heart of the show is centered on the life and times of Irving Berlin, impoverished Russian immigrant turned songwriter, it also addresses various political and social issues such as anti-Semitism, anti-patriotism, racism, poverty, and classism—issues this nation still struggles with today. Along with its copious amounts of social and political commentary, this biographical

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    is eloquently written by Washington Irving, a prolific nineteenth century American writer. The Author sets the story in a village near the Hudson River, along the banks of the Catskill Mountains where Great Britain once held reigns. Irving presents the reader with a story that effectively delivers an abundance of connotations representing the era of its origin. Through the use of characterization, imagery and symbolism, the reader can infer that Washington Irving is conveying a complex theme of historical

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