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"Our time is the time of the fairy tale": Hans Christian Andersen between Traditional Craft and Literary Modernism
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The position held by Hans Christian Andersen in world literature is that of a children's author. In Scandinavia, and to some extent also in Germany, France, and Eastern Europe, there is an awareness that Andersen was much more than that: a poet, first of all, known to some extent as an author of novels, travelogues, and poems, but still unknown as the prolific writer of stage plays, which he was throughout his professional life.
In general, Andersen's fame is based on ten or twelve sto...
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WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG, BAD FAIRY TALE? FAIRY TALES CONTINUE TO HAVE VALUE FOR CHILDREN, EXPERTS SAY.(LIFE)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Byline: GAYLE VASSAR MELVIN Knight-Ridder News Service Once upon a time, there were wolves who ate grandmas, pigs who built houses and frogs who could became princes with one ...
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A drop of bitterness: Andersen's fairy tales
The Hudson Review
; There are not many people now, perhaps there are none, who can write really good fairy tales, because they do not believe enough in their own stories, and because they want to be wittier than it has pleased Heaven to make them. -Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book (1892) HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, who
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A PERFECT Wizard ; 'Annotated Hans Christian Andersen' delves into beauty, spirit of author's beloved fairy tales
Albuquerque Journal
; Harvard University scholar Maria Tatar has truly been a literary fairy godmother for readers who take their fairy tales seriously. I eagerly picked up Tatar's "The Annotated Brothers Grimm" when my daughter and I were reading and rereading many of the Grimms' fairy tales at bedtime. We both enjoyed
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PREFACE TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE ON FAIRY TALES, PRINTED TEXTS, AND ORAL TELLINGS
Marvels & Tales
; This special issue showcases contemporary explorations of fairy tales' origins and transmission, introduces one seminal work previously unavailable in English, and reproduces a long-inaccessible tale from the Thousand and One Nights tradition. Throughout the essays, questions of fairy-tale origins
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Fairy tales continue to have value for children, experts say.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; Once upon a time, there were wolves who ate grandmas, pigs who built houses and frogs who could became princes with one magic kiss. Then children became more sophisticated and lost their need for fairy tales. Or did they? Today's children may need the magic of fairy tales even more than their
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Relive the magic of fairy tales
New Straits Times
; Reviewed by Sandra Jacobey New Straits Times 02-04-2005 Relive the magic of fairy tales Byline: Reviewed by Sandra Jacobey Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Type: Book review TO celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth, his most well-known and nicest fairy tales have been
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Andersen after 2005: will it ever end? On four recent volumes on the Tales of Hans Christian Andersen.(When We Get to the End ... Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen; H.C. Andersen: Eventyr, kunst og modernitet; H.C. Andersen: Modernitet and Modernisme; More Than Meets the Eye: Hans Christian Andersen and Nineteenth-Century American Criticism)(Critical essay)
Scandinavian Studies
; * Per Krogh Hansen and Mariarme Wolff Lundholt, eds. When We Get to the End Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Writings from the Center for Narratological Studies I. Odense: UP Southern Denmark, 2005. * Elizabeth Oxfeldt, ed. H.C. Andersen: Eventyr, kunst og
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Fairy Tales and Foreign Languages: Ever the Twain Shall Meet
Foreign Language Annals
; Abstract: Fairy tales are certainly not new to foreign language instructors, but on occasion they have been considered either exoteric or unworthy of class time. Yet today there is a resurgence of interest in fairy tales and a rebirth of their use in the arts, which may serve foreign language
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Building a Library: Fairy tales
The Independent on Sunday
; In this year when we celebrate the bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth, it's only appropriate to remind ourselves of the fairy tales that have followed his classic productions. Fairy tale writers use the archetypal characters and situations, paranormal properties and inexorable forward
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The Transformation of Folktales and Fairy Tales into Popular Booklets
Marvels & Tales
; Introduction: The Importance of Popular Booklets of Tales From the very beginning of the history of books, in the middle of the fifteenth century popular print constituted an important part of book production. Chapbooks with various contents-among them booklets of tales-were produced and widely
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