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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores how and why Andersen fairy tales could be taught at school in new multimodal ways that reflect 21st century networked, digital and popular culture. Based on social semiotic theory and Dewey's...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 85, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE TITLE OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S first novel is, as is well known, something of a joke. The rather lengthy title--Fodreise fra Holmens Canal til Ostpynten af Amager i Aarene 1828 og 1829 (A Walking Tour from...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5963)An edited version of an article by E. V. Lucas about Hans Christian Andersen, published in the TLS of March 31,1905. A hundred years ago on Sunday--on April 2, 1805--in a cobbler's cottage at Odense, was born the...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe thematic issue on the fairy tale consists of eight articles: one on the Cuban fairy tale, one on tales by the Brothers Grimm, one on the Norwegian fairy tale and five on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. The...
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From:Nordic Journal of English Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFairy tales have often been controversial, and today much of the controversy appears to revolve around gender issues. With a focus on gendered appearances and relationships, this article examines Hans Christian...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article investigates contemporary functions of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, situated as they are in a cross-cultural mix between folklore, booklore and medialore, and therefore useful as "trash" in a play...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe article relates how 1867 was an eventful year for Andersen; he was made honorary citizen of his home town, Odense, Denmark, and endowed with the tide of councillor of state, a title that pleased him especially...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe article discusses the potential for intercultural exchange to be found in Andersen's fairy tales, particularly the so-called "art fairy tale", or, as it is most commonly called in English: Kunstmarchen. The...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe article shows how Andersen's narrative technique discards both the syntagmatic and the paradigmatic approach to the fairy tale, in that the story reverses or inverts the fairy tale structure, thus becoming modern...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article initially points out the paradox that Hans Christian Andersen has become a cultural icon on a global scale based on translations which are often unreliable. The article further argues that this is partly due...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis special issue on children's literature and fairy tales has its focus on Hans Christian Andersen: his unique way of telling and his influence on modem Danish children's literature, as well as the way his fairy tales...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe article examines the language in Andersen's earliest fairy tales, concentrating on the radical changes from the very first tale "Dodningen" (1830) to "The Tinderbox" in the first separate volume from 1835 and other...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this article, I analyse the tale "The Galoshes of Fortune". published by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1838. The story was thus written more than a century before the emergence of the Danish welfare...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedChildren's literature in Denmark developed in a literary culture in which various modes of expression interacted: sound, writing, visual expression and dramatic performance. This article discusses this aspect of...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVirginity is because it ends. --Hanne Blank, Virgin: The Untouched History (1) "Where does one read a deeper tale than upon the most perfectly printed page of the most precious book? Upon the blank page" (Dinesen...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHans Christian Andersen is a cultural icon, and his fairy tales are famous around the world. But despite the positive ring to this description, his status as a canonized author poses a challenge when he is passed on to...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe fairy tale is in Poland thought to be exclusively a genre for children but the Danes were inclined to have a slightly different perspective. The tradition of the "Kunstmarchen" made the fairy tale an accepted adult...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Standhaftige tinsoldat" ("The Steadfast Tin Soldier," also "The Constant Tin Soldier") was published in Hans Christian Andersen's Eventyr (Fairy Tales), which appeared from 1835 to 1842. In the 19th century, the strong...
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From: Reality and the Vision[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Wangerin presents a personal reading of some of Andersen's best known fairy tales, utilizing his own memories and reminiscence to emphasize Andersen's recurring themes of...
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From: Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Jørgensen describes the various types of heroic characters that appear in Andersen's works.] A Son of the People Let us begin in medias res: with a fabulous main character...