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

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."

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Nathanson
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.01.1992
• EAN: 9780791407097
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0709-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Suny Series in the Social and; Suny Series in the Social and; Suny Series, McGill Studies in
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies