Over the Rainbow The Wizard of Oz As a Secular Myth of America |
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| Author:
| Nathanson, Paul |
| Foreword by:
| Young, Katherine K. |
| Series title: | SUNY Series, Mcgill Studies in the History of Religions, a Series Devoted to International Scholarship Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7914-0709-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
| Publisher: | State University of New York Press
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| Imprint: | Suny Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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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."
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."