Rip Van Winkle

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Rip Van Winkle is a classic American short story about a man who mysteriously sleeps through decades in the Catskill Mountains and awakens to a transformed world.

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instanceOf literary work
short story
author Washington Irving
canonicalStatus classic of American literature
containsCharacter Dame Van Winkle
Judith Gardenier
Nicholas Vedder
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surface form: Rip Van Winkle Jr.
containsSupernaturalElement mysterious Dutch bowlers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresEvent American Revolutionary War (in background)
firstPublishedIn The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
firstPublisher C. S. Van Winkle
genre American literature
fantasy fiction
short story
hasAdaptation Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rip Van Winkle (film adaptations)

Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rip Van Winkle (play)
hasIllustrationBy Arthur Rackham
hasLiteraryDevice allegory
frame narrative
satire
hasMotive escape from domestic life
hasPublicDomainStatus public domain in the United States
includedIn many American literature anthologies
influenced American short story tradition
inspiredBy European folk tales about long sleepers
literaryForm prose
literaryPeriod American Romanticism
mainCharacter Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rip Van Winkle (character)
narrator Geoffrey Crayon
originalLanguage English
partOf The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
placeOfFirstPublication New York City
protagonistStatusAfterSleep citizen of the United States
protagonistStatusBeforeSleep colonial subject of King George III
publicationYear 1819
settingCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Catskill Mountains
settingTime before and after the American Revolutionary War
theme change over time
freedom and responsibility
identity and memory
American Revolutionary era
surface form: the American Revolution

tradition versus progress
timeSkipDuration 20 years

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Columbia University (did not graduate) notableWork Rip Van Winkle
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Geoffrey Crayon narrates Rip Van Winkle
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Rip Van Winkle containsCharacter Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Rip Van Winkle Jr.
Rip Van Winkle hasAdaptation Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Rip Van Winkle (play)
Rip Van Winkle hasAdaptation Rip Van Winkle self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Rip Van Winkle (film adaptations)
Catskill Mountains notableWork Rip Van Winkle
subject surface form: Washington Irving
Dame Van Winkle appearsIn Rip Van Winkle
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Nicholas Vedder characterInWork Rip Van Winkle
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Judith Gardenier appearsIn Rip Van Winkle
Judith Gardenier childOf Rip Van Winkle
Judith Gardenier siblingOf Rip Van Winkle
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Judith Gardenier hasFather Rip Van Winkle
Judith Gardenier appearsInLiteraryWork Rip Van Winkle
Judith Gardenier fictionalUniverse Rip Van Winkle
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Kaaterskill Falls mentionedIn Rip Van Winkle
this entity surface form: “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
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