Hans Christian Andersen: Stories of Desire and Discomfort

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course will start with a discussion of Andersen's starting point in the Danish and German Romanticism in the 1830s and 40s. We will then move on to the ambivalences in Andersen's later works and discover how Hans Christian Andersen's literary tales have been received and adapted through time and how they are still pertinent in the 21st century.