The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum's first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children's literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the...
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The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum's first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children's literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the scholarly imagination as well. The seventeen essays in this book address numerous questions of the boundaries between literature, film, and stage--and these have become essential to Oz scholarship. Together the essays explore the ways in which Oz tells us much about ourselves, our society, and our journeys
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Part One: Oz and Literary Criticism; 1. The Emerald Canon; 2. Dorothy and Cinderella; 3. Psychospiritual Wizdom; 4. "Come out, come out, wherever you are"; 5. "Something between higgledy-piggledy and the eternal sphere"; 6. No Place Like the O.Z.; 7. The Wizard of Oz as a Modernist Work; Part Two: Oz and Philosophy; 8. Ask the Clock of the Time Dragon; 9. Down the Yellow Brick Road; 10. The "Wonderful" Wizard of Oz and Other Lies; 11. Memories Cloaked in Magic; 12. The Wicked Wizard of Oz; 13. A Feminist Stroll Down the Yellow Brick Road
Part Three: Oz and Social Critique14. The Wiz; 15. The Wiz as the Seventies' Version of The Wizard of Oz; 16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 17. The Ethics and Epistemology of Emancipation in Oz; About the Contributors; Index
