SOURCE: Ingwersen, Niels. “Being Stuck: The Subversive Andersen and His Audience.” In Studies in German and Scandinavian Literature after 1500, edited by James A. Parente, Jr. and Richard Erich Schade, pp. 166-80. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1993.
In the following essay, Ingwersen illustrates a common motif seen in Andersen's fairy tales, “that of being captured, of being trapped … of being denied freedom,” and how this dilemma is overcome in Andersen's “subversive” stories.
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