updated Fall 2011 syllabus - Fall2011 LitTrans275: MWF9:5510:45am Classroom:Bascom165 ProfessorJulieK.Allen Office:1302VanHise OfficeHours:9:159:45amMF

Fall 2011 LitTrans 275: The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen MWF 9:55-10:45am Classroom: Bascom 165 Professor Julie K. Allen Office: 1302 Van Hise Office Hours: 9:15-9:45am MF [email protected] Course website: https://wischolar.wisc.edu/littrans275/ Comm-B TAs: Mathew Holland [email protected] Tim Cochrane [email protected] Required Textbooks 1. Hans Christian Andersen. The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories. Trans. by Erik Christian Haugaard. New York: Anchor Books, 1983. (CFTS) 2. Jens Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen, Trans. by Tiina Nunnally. New York: Overlook Press, 2005. (HCA) 3. Danish Folktales . Collected by Mathias Winther. (DF) 4. Various articles available online on the course website (WS) For Comm-B sections: Diana Hacker, Rules for Writers. Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. Course Description If you walk around Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, or Odense, the city where Hans Christian Andersen was born, you'll see dozens of memorials to him and his creations: streets and restaurants named "Klod Hans" or "Fyrtøjet," statues of one-legged tin soldiers, the Little Mermaid, and HC Andersen himself, as he is known to Danes. Hans Christian Andersen is Denmark's most famous writer, but, truth be told, most people know little about him or his work besides his name and a couple of his fairy tales (usually the ones that have been made into Disney films). This course is your chance to remedy that, to join the cool "in" crowd of HC Andersen aficionados, who can recognize a symbol a mile off and casually refer to decisive moments in mid-19th century Danish history at parties. There's a 1

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price to be paid for this knowledge, of course, as there always is, in fairy tales, but it is not your soul or your feet or your firstborn child; it is your close attention, both in class and out, to the facts and fictions of HC Andersen's life and texts. As you do, you’ll learn to read and interpret not only stories but also the scholarly, historical, and cultural documents that contextualize the stories and reveal their resonance with social issues in Andersen’s own time and today. Course Requirements Most students should be taking the course for 3 credits . Students taking this course for Comm-B should be signed up for Lecture 2 for 4 credits .