Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller, by jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2005.171 pages, index, $19.95 paper. I must start with a confession: I asked to do this review because of Danny Kaye's portrayal of Hans Christian Andersen. As a child I loved...

The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Selected and translated by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz FrÃ'lich. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 293 pp., bibliography. In the past decade, particularly in small European nations like Denmark,...

Hundreds of black-clad youths clashed with police in Copenhagen Tuesday, barricading streets and setting fire to cars to protest the demolition of a building in the free-wheeling Christiania district.Meanwhile, Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue was found doused with red paint, the second time the bronze...

Today is Monday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2007. There are 273 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.Today's Highlight in History:On April 2, 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be...

In the following essay, Bredsdorff discusses the sources of some of Andersen's tales and proposes a system for grouping the tales.

In the following essay, Zipes points to ambivalence in Andersen's tales, finding its roots in the conflict between Andersen's identification with the lower classes and his simultaneous efforts to legitimize Denmark's hierarchical social structure and particularly its powerful upper classes, which in essence controlled his literary success.

In the following essay, Sanders investigates how the art of sculpture subverts understandings of gender markings in Andersen's tale “Psychen.”