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
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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
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