IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
THESIS STATEMENT: I will look at the ways in which the opening pages play with the reader’s expectations, both fulfilling the role traditionally assigned to the incipit and disappointing the reader's expectations by raising more questions than it provides answers.
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
THESIS STATEMENT: I will look at the ways in which the opening pages play with the reader’s expectations, both fulfilling the role traditionally assigned to the incipit and disappointing the reader's expectations by raising more questions than it provides answers.
1. Entering Another World.
2. An Unreliable Narrator.
3. Framing Devices & the Role of Story-Telling: Irving's Ars Poetica
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
1. Entering Another World.
1. Gently taking the reader to a different place = multiple thresholds.2. Contiguity, remoteness, and defamiliarization.(Myths springing from historical events)An edenic place = symbiosis man/ nature.Symbiosis natural/ supernatural + Enchanted place/ Fairy-tale land.3. Symbiosis SH/ inhabitants => Cohesive and self-contained world. A character in its own right (mention translations).
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
3. Framing Devices & the Role of Story-Telling: Irving's Ars Poetica
1. Knickerbocker = writing history of land with no history = weaving web through intertextuality.2. Narrative intermediaries = (oral) transmission and retelling.3. Knitting the community together through storytelling.
Sleepy Hollow: Incipit
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IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
THESIS STATEMENT: I will look at the ways in which the opening pages play with the reader’s expectations, both fulfilling the role traditionally assigned to the incipit and disappointing the reader's expectations by raising more questions than it provides answers.
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
THESIS STATEMENT: I will look at the ways in which the opening pages play with the reader’s expectations, both fulfilling the role traditionally assigned to the incipit and disappointing the reader's expectations by raising more questions than it provides answers.
1. Entering Another World.
2. An Unreliable Narrator.
3. Framing Devices & the Role of Story-Telling: Irving's Ars Poetica
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
1. Entering Another World.
1. Gently taking the reader to a different place = multiple thresholds.2. Contiguity, remoteness, and defamiliarization.(Myths springing from historical events)An edenic place = symbiosis man/ nature.Symbiosis natural/ supernatural + Enchanted place/ Fairy-tale land.3. Symbiosis SH/ inhabitants => Cohesive and self-contained world. A character in its own right (mention translations).
IRVING'S THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
ANALYSIS OF THE INCIPIT
3. Framing Devices & the Role of Story-Telling: Irving's Ars Poetica
1. Knickerbocker = writing history of land with no history = weaving web through intertextuality.2. Narrative intermediaries = (oral) transmission and retelling.3. Knitting the community together through storytelling.