Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.(Book review)

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From: Scandinavian Studies
Date: 20060622
Author:Hugus, Frank

* Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. Oxon, England: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xviii + 171.

Published in 2005 on the occasion of the Andersen bicentenary, Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller was written primarily for readers in the English-speaking world and is, in Zipes's own words, "intended as a modest but provocative contribution to the scholarship on Andersen with the hope that I may cause some eyebrows to be raised while revealing some new aspects of this pathetically great artist" (xvi). While it is arguable whether the ...

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