Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" has been so ritualistically cited and discussed by historians,political scientists and literary scholars that it is no longer just a simple tale but a prominent text in American culture.The tale,as one critic proclaims,"presides over the birth of the American imagination" (Fiedler xx).This essay revisits "Rip Van Winkle" for the sole purpose of considering how this literary text can also stimulate critical thinking on the connection between fiction (or poetry) and history.
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机译:XiongWeimin熊卫民, Dui yu lishi, kexuejia you hua shuo: 20 shiji Zhongguo kexuejie de ren yu shi对于历史,科学家有话 说:20世纪中国科学界的人与事[Scientists Have Something to Say about History: The People and Issues of Twentieth-Century China’s Scientific World] Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe, 2017. 389 pp. RMB¥52.
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