1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

国内外的研究现状分析

domesticand foreign scholars have studied washington irving's short story rip van winkle for a long time, and thenumber is very large and the research results are abundant. however, moststudies mainly focus on the historical consciousness of the novel, the role ofmale characters, and the criticism of the new country, and rarely analyze thefemale images in the novel. in washingtonirving’s rip van winkle: a dangerous critique of a new nation, sarah wyman outlinesthe characters, explores the symbolic significance of these characters and examinesthe theme of rip van winkle. yangjin-cai focuses on the texts and contexts that irving incorporates into thestory and argues that irving writes out his anxieties and ambivalence towardamerica and himself in his texts andcontexts in rip van winkle.

thestudy of female images in various novels has also achieved very rich results inthe academic circles at home and abroad. scholars such as ji jingfen(1999), liuying(2000), and wang xiaoying(2005) agree that the three women in alicewalker's everyday use are thedefenders, rebels, and successors of the black cultural heritage, representingdifferent attitudes towards their cultural heritage. they praise their motherand maggie for protecting their ethnic identity and cultural traditions, andaccuse dee of being sophisticated, shallow, tacky, obsessed with fashion andlacking a true understanding of her nation's cultural heritage. however, lijieping’s interpretation of the femaleimages in everyday use published in 2007 believed that the mother andmaggie stuck to the cultural traditions of their own nation, and deerepresented a new generation of african americans with an independent spirit andmodern consciousness. in the femaleimages in yaa gyasi's homegoing, lai cencen divided the female images of homegoing into three categories:oppressed and dominated images, maternal and optimistic images, independent andstrong images.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

研究的基本内容

chapterone introduction

1.1 introduction of washington irving and rip van winkle

1.2 significance and objective of the thesis

3. 研究计划与安排

before 1st january : settlement of the title

before 1st march: submission of the outline

before 15th april : submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

[1] he xiangmei. literature review of rip van winkle[j]. shen zhou, 2014, no. 14：28.

[2] kairui fang. deism and daoism in washingtonirving’s “rip van

winkle” [j]. springer,2017(10): 21-36.