title: Hunger and plenty: Hans Christian Andersen and the poetry of food
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metadata.value: Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen
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metadata.value: 2018-08-07T08:58:39Z
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metadata.value: 2018-08-07T08:58:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen. Sult ogoverflod. H. C. Andersen og madens poesi. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 93–103.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14683
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metadata.value: Hans Christian Andersen often writes about food, gastronomy and the enjoyment
  of good meals. As is well-known, Andersen grew up under straitened circumstances,
  and even if he was hardly exposed to severe hunger, he experienced as a child how
  good food was one of the privileges of the upper class, while the poor had to make do
  with less and at times go hungry. These experiences with food play a role in Andersen’s
  works, also in his depictions of and fantasies about food. In the article, I show
  how a fairytale such as ‘The Little Matchstick Girl’ contains descriptions of severe hunger
  and food that give rise to grotesque fantasies. The article also contains an analysis
  of a couple of Andersen’s birthday letters to the boy Sally Melchior which contain a
  lovely fantasy about the country with ditches that flow with mixed berry pudding and
  cream. Finally, the perspectives of food and mealtimes is examined in the letter to his
  close friend Eduard Collin. These examples show how Andersen uses and stages food, mealtimes and the sensations of pleasure in his art and his writing. The article thereby
  seeks to gain a clearer view of Andersen’s use of gastronomy and depictions of food as
  imagination-enhancing elements in what is narrated. The examples from poems, fairytales
  and letters show both how food, gastronomy, wine and the enjoyment of life are
  included among the imagination-enhancing elements in Andersen’s art, and that the
  experiences and memories Andersen has from the straitened circumstances of his early
  life are further developed in the work of the adult artist.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: H. C. Andersen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fairy-tales
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: H. C. Andersen’s letters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: food
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gastronomy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Hunger and plenty: Hans Christian Andersen and the poetry of food
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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