Keywords
Danish literature, Scandinavian-American fiction, Danish identity, the immigrant experience
Abstract
The bicentennial of the births of Hans Christian Andersen and August de Bournonville and the 150th anniversary of the death of Soren Kierkegaard provide opportunity to reflect and celebrate how artists and philosophers interpret and express the complex network of values and ideas inherent in any culture. Great artists and thinkers are particularly successful in producing work that transcends a specific culture and achieves universality recognizable beyond the boundaries of that culture into which they were born. Certainly the works produced by Andersen, Bournonville, and Kierkgaard are not just Danish; their work engages and invites audiences to consider what it means to be human.
Recommended Citation
Nielsen, John Mark
(2006)
"The Veil between Fact and Fiction in the Novels of Kristian Ostergaard,"
The Bridge: Vol. 29:
No.
2, Article 41.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol29/iss2/41
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