Dates |
Content of Lecture |
Readings |
Week 1 |
Introduction |
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Week 2 |
Life and Background |
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M 9/4 |
Labor Day, no class |
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W 9/6 |
Andersen’s life as a child |
"The Emperor's New Clothes" p. 77, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 105
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F 9/8 |
Andersen’s life as a child |
"The Ugly Duckling" p. 216, Haugaard. |
Week 3 |
Folklore, Magic, and Trickery |
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M 9/11 |
Andersen and children |
"Children's Prattle" p. 630, Haugaard.
"Little Ida's Flowers" p. 22, Haugaard.
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W 9/13 |
Folklore and Andersen |
"The Pancake House" p. 1 Danish Folktales
"Snow White" p. 19 Danish Folktales
"The Little Kitchen Maid" p. 23 Danish Folktales |
F 9/15 |
The Magic Tale |
"The Traveling Companion" p. 40, Haugaard
"The Companion", Peter Asbjörnsen, online
Vladimir Propp
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Week 4 |
Life and Folklore |
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M 9/18 |
The Magic Tale |
"The Eleven Swans" p. 4 Danish Folktales.
"The Wild Swans" p. 117, Haugaard |
W 9/20 |
Movie |
"Young Andersen"
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F 9/22 |
Movie
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Week 5 |
Romanticism |
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M 9/25 |
Andersen and The Fabliau |
"Clod Hans" p.479, Haugaard
"What Father does is Always Right", p. 713 Haugaard
"Little Claus and Big Claus" p. 8, Haugaard |
W 9/27 |
First Exam Review |
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F 9/29 |
First Exam in class |
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Week 6 |
Merpeople and Exam |
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M 10/2 |
Andersen and Romanticism |
The Dying Child online
"The Daisy" p. 108, Haugaard. |
W 10/4 |
Mermaids |
"The Little Mermaid," p. 57 Haugaard. |
F 10/6 |
Instructor Conference, no Class |
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Week 7 |
Andersen and Biedermeier and Women
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M 10/9 |
Merpeople |
“The Garden of Eden," p. 132 Haugaard.
"The Prince and the Merman" p. 15, Danish Folktales.
"The Merman" p. 35, Danish Folktales. |
W 10/11 |
Angelic Romanticism |
"The Angel" p. 200, Haugaard
"The Comet" p. 978, Haugaard
"The Hill of the Elves" p. 282, Haugaard |
F 10/13 |
Icy Women and their life |
"The Snow Queen" p. 234, Haugaard
"Inchelina" p. 29, Haugaard.
"The Talisman" p. 550, Haugaard |
Week 8 |
Andersen and sex roles |
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M 10/16 |
Women & the 19th Cent. |
"The Swineherd" p. 193, Haugaard |
W 10/18 |
Love, Pain, and a Narrator |
"The Naughty Boy" p. 38, Haugaard.
"The Snowman" p. 718, Haugaard.
"The Pact of Friendship" p. 167, Haugaard. |
F 10/20 |
Obsessive Love |
"The Sweethearts" p. 213, Haugaard.
"The Collar" p. 366, Haugaard.
"The Butterfly" p. 782, Haugaard
MTJFT p. 35 |
Week 9 |
Obsession revisited |
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M 10/23 |
Obsession and sexuality |
"The Ice Maiden" p. 735, Haugaard. |
W 10/25 |
19th Cent. sexuality |
"Ib and Little Christina" p. 469, Haugaard.
Bachelor goes a-wooing, by Lise Sørensen, online.
"Under the Willow Tree" p. 431, Haugaard.
"The Dung Beetle" p. 705, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 81
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F 10/27 |
The mind Obsessed |
"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" p. 112, Haugaard
"What the Wind Told about Valdemar Daae and his Daughters" p. 595, Haugaard.
"The Old House" p. 346, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 11 |
Week 10 |
Pointing towards the future |
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M 10/30 |
The Social Hierarchy |
"The Darning Needle" p. 271, Haugaard.
"The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" p. 297, Haugaard.
"The Janitor's Son" p. 865, Haugaard |
W 11/1 |
Second Exam Review |
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F 11/3 |
Second Exam in class |
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Week 11 |
Social Criticism |
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M 11/6 |
The Past and the Future |
"The Great Sea Serpent" p. 1006, Haugaard.
"The Millennium" p. 428, Haugaard.
"The Old Street Lamp" p. 313, Haugaard.
"The Candles" p. 992, Haugaard. |
W 11/8 |
Social Criticism |
"The Little Match Girl" p. 306, Haugaard
"She was no good" p. 452, Haugaard
"Everything in its Right Place" p.416, Haugaard |
F 11/10 |
The new and the old |
"Grief" p. 414, Haugaard.
"A Drop of Water" p. 354, Haugaard.
"In the Duckyard" p. 723, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 11, p. 23 |
Week 12 |
Art, Artist, and Audience |
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M 11/13 |
Looking down |
"A Drop of Water" p. 354, Haugaard.
"The Watchman of the Tower" p. 614, Haugaard.
"A Happy Disposition" p. 410, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 23 |
W 11/15 |
Art and the artist |
"Something" p. 539, Haugaard.
"The Gardener and his Master" p. 1015, Haugaard |
F 11/178 |
Art and the audience |
"The Pen and the Inkwell" p. 639, Haugaard.
"The Bronze Pig" p. 156, Haugaard.
"The Nightingale" p. 203, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 35 |
Week 13 |
Art – and Thanksgiving! |
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M 11/20 |
Art and trickery |
"The Professor and the Flea" p. 1022, Haugaard.
"The Flying Trunk" p. 145, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 11, p. 35 |
W 11/22 |
Thanksgiving |
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F 11/24 |
Thanksgiving |
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Week 14 |
Art and Religion |
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M 11/27 |
Art for Art’s sake |
"Psyche" p. 785, Haugaard.
"Lovely" p. 650, Haugaard |
W 11/29 |
Art and the Dark Side
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"The Shadow" p. 334, Haugaard.
"The Will-o-wisps are in Town the Bog Witch said" p. 799, Haugaard |
F 12/1 |
The grace of God |
"On the Last Day" p. 401, Haugaard
"The Girl Who Stepped on Bread" p. 606, Haugaard.
"The Red Shoes" p. 289, Haugaard. |
Week 15 |
Religion continued |
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M 12/4 |
Deism and Atheism |
"The Angel" p. 200, Haugaard.
"The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream" p. 545, Haugaard.
"The Bell" p. 275, Haugaard.
"The Evil King" p. 592, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 57 |
W 12/ 6 |
Redemption |
"About the Stolen Barley-corns" p. 40, Danish Folktales
"The Elf Children" p. 41, Danish Folktales
"The Dead Child" p. 642, Haugaard.
"The Pine Tree" p. 225, Haugaard.
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F 12/8 |
Choice |
"The Story of a Mother" p. 360, Haugaard.
"The Flax" p. 369, Haugaard.
MTJFT p. 57 |
Week 16 |
The End! |
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M 12/ 11 |
The end of life |
"Auntie Toothache" p. 1058, Haugaard.
"The Story old Johanna Told" p. 1026, Haugaard. |
W 12/ 13 |
Third exam in class |
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