Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship) - Hardcover

Nathanson, Paul

 
9780791407097: Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (SUNY series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, A Series Devoted to International Scholarship)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0791407098 ISBN 13: 9780791407097
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Paul Nathanson is a researcher in the field of Religious Studies at the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law. He is working with Katherine K. Young on the forthcoming book The Future of Nature: Reproductive Technologies and the Symbolic Frontier.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791407098
ISBN 13 
9780791407097
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
432

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