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| “There’s No Place Like Home”: An American Koan | ||
| 作者 | Smith, David L. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture |
| 卷期 | v.26 n.3 Fall |
| 出版日期 | 2014.09.01 |
| 頁次 | 287 - 292 |
| 出版者 | University of Toronto Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://utppublishing.com/ |
| 出版地 | Toronto, ON, Canada [多倫多, 安大略省, 加拿大] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation:Central Michigan University |
| 關鍵詞 | The Wizard of Oz; religion; Buddhism |
| 摘要 | I use the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz as an occasion to reflect on the various ways a desire for ultimate fulfillment is configured in religion. Typically, the film’s climactic motto—“There’s no place like home”—is taken as a straightforward expression of the familiar view that fulfillment is the result of a quest, the yearning that takes Dorothy to Oz and back again. There is another religious paradigm, however, that presents fulfillment as a matter of “non-attainment,” or a quality that is inalienably immanent. My argument is that the film as a whole (and this motto in particular) contains a sophisticated critique of its own surface meaning, in which the desire for “real life elsewhere” is brought into tension with the intuition of a meaning that can never be lost. |
| ISSN | 1703289X (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.26.3.287 |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.12.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.12.25 |
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