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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). Journal Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism, 2010, vol. 10, iss. 4, pp. 59-63. DOI: , EDN:

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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)

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Petrushina Anna Alexandrovna, Saratov State University
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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).

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  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).
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  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