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Petrushina A. A. From Romanticism to Postmodernism: W. Irving’s Novel «The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow» (1819) and Tim Burton’s Film Version «The Sleepy Hollow» (1999). Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2010, vol. 10, iss. 4, pp. 59-63. DOI: 10.18500/1817-7115-2010-10-4-59-63, EDN:

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Literary criticism
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10.18500/1817-7115-2010-10-4-59-63
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From Romanticism to Postmodernism: W. Irving’s Novel «The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow» (1819) and Tim Burton’s Film Version «The Sleepy Hollow» (1999)

Autors: 
Petrushina Anna Alexandrovna, Saratov State University
Abstract: 

The article analyzes the transformation of a literary work by one of the founders of American Romanticism into a post-modernist film canvas. Materials for the analysis are a short story by Washington Irving, «The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» (1819) and a Tim Burton film, «Sleepy Hollow» (1999).

Key words: 
literary work
short story
movie
writer
film director
romanticism
postmodernism
Reference: 
  1. Irving W. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow//Tales by Washington Irving. М., 1982.
  2. См.: Connor S. Postmodernist culture: an introduction to theories of the contemporary. Oxford, 1989; Huyssen A. After the Great Divide: modernism, mass culture and postmodernism. Macmillan, 1988; Ильин И. Постструктурализм, деконструктивизм, постмодернизм. М., 1996.
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  6. См.: Gleiberman O. Dead heads // Entertainment Weekly, 1999.
  7. «In his devouring mind’s eye he pictured to himself every roasting pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy; and the ducks pairing cozily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion sauce. In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living» («The Legend …», p. 74).
  8. См.: Newman K. Op. cit.
  9. См.: Gleiberman O. Op. cit.
  10. «To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for <…> some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field» («The Legend …», p. 67).
  11. «… a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was a woman» («The Legend …», p. 72).
  12. См.: Bernardo S. The bloody battle of sexes in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow // Literature Film Quarterly, 2003.
Received: 
16.07.2010
Accepted: 
30.08.2010
Available online: 
22.11.2010
Published: 
22.11.2010