Tag Archives: Washington Irving

Visions of Sleepy Hollow

Friday, March 28, 2014

Combing through the many versions of “Sleepy Hollow,” Scott Borchert looks to American history and mythology to discuss a national tale with a past that bleeds into its present. Continue reading →

Posted in Popular Culture | Tagged Fox, Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Tim Burton, Washington Irving | 4 Comments

The 50 Greatest Literary Character Names of All Time

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Greg Olear whittles the Who’s Who of all of literature down to the 50 top names. Continue reading →

Posted in 50 Greatest | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand, Beverly Cleary, Bram SToker, Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Don DeLillo, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francine Prose, George Orwell, Harper Lee, Herman Melville, Joe Heller, Laurence Sterne, Margaret Mitchell, Mark Twain, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Pauline Reage, Raoul Dahl, Richard Wright, Robert Heinlein, Roberto Bolano, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, the Brontë sisters, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Harris, Thomas Pynchon, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, Walker Percy, Washington Irving, William Faulkner, William Gibson, William Goldman | 116 Comments

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