Zapraszamy na pierwszy w nowym roku wyk艂ad dzieka艅ski "We're Off to See The Wizard. Enchantment and Disenchantment in the "Land of Oz" Theme Park", kt贸ry wyg艂osi dr David Allen (Midland Actors Theatre, Newman University UK).Wyk艂ad prowadzony b臋dzie w j臋zyku angielskim i odb臋dzie si臋 9 stycznia w auli A1 Wydzia艂u Filologicznego U艁 o godzinie 17:45.
'We're Off to See the Wizard' Enchantment and Disenchantment in The Land of Oz Theme Park
"This isn't a play or a pageant or a movie. It's the Land of Oz. Dorothy's dream world come true."
Dr. David Allen discusses the way the Land of Oz theme park in North Carolina, evoked both the Jeffersonian vision of America as a pastoral garden, and the Romantic dream of the world as our Heimat or 'home.'
Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) has been described as 'the first distinctive attempt to construct a fairyland out of American materials'. The author drew on European traditions of fairy tales, but also adapted them for the American context. At the same time, the novel may be seen as a reaffirmation of the Jeffersonian pastoral myth: the vision of America as 'virgin land.'
The Land of Oz theme park operated on Beech Mountain (in the Appalachian region) from 1970 to 1980. For adult visitors, it was a place where they could reconnect with part of their own childhood; and play at the idea of being in an enchanted world, somewhere 'over the rainbow' - both the fairyland of Oz, and the lost 'wonderland' of the American pastoral myth.