Literary Analysis Of Rip Van Winkle

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RIP VAN WINKLE: AN EMERGENCE IN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY Rip Van Winkle was given the credit of introducing the short story as a new genre in American literature. It could be considered ironic or entirely unsurprising to discover that American literature comes out of age by embracing the mythological theme as one of its most significant thematic bases. Rip Van Winkle makes readers question whether they are reading something of factual history or fiction. The mythical elements of the narrative are obvious when the Gothic elements begin setting in. Rip hears his name but cannot see “nothing but a crow winging its solitary flight across the mountain”. It becomes quite obvious at this point that the story is hitting some different themes. What
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