Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America

Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America
ISBN-10
0791407098
ISBN-13
9780791407097
Series
Over the Rainbow
Category
Religion
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
1991-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Author
Paul Nathanson

Description

Over the Rainbow shows how Dorothy's passage from Kansas to Oz and back again recapitulates paradigmatic stories of both America and Christianity. Defining human identity on three symbolic levels (individual, collective, and cosmic), Nathanson shows that The Wizard of Oz has come to be a "secular myth."

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