ENG250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: American Literature, Working Poor, Personal Development
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Lecture 15: the legend of sleepy hollow cont. and. A lot of the myths and ghost stories circulating are notably about the revolution and figures from the revolution. Headless horseman: figure tapping into questions about authority, control, agency of revolution. Not insignificant that this figure is missing a head. Specific geography and tree haunted by specific figure (british spy) Controversial, raises questions about what happens in war. Complicates ideas of revolution as clean and easy patriotic ideas. Local revolutionary histories, seem important in terms with what bram bones does or doesn"t do. Brom bones lays groundwork for what happens next. Creepy mysterious story that headless horseman throws head at ichabod. Really it was brom bones who threw a pumpkin at him, drives crane off. No one knows where crane is, rumors circulating. Everything he"s doing now is not what he wanted (take katrina"s stuff, turn to profit) Who uses local knowledge to drive off crane.
