dc.contributor | 英文系 | - |
dc.creator (作者) | 柯瑞強 | - |
dc.date (日期) | 2015-12 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 6-六月-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8) | - |
dc.date.available | 6-六月-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8) | - |
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 6-六月-2016 15:46:40 (UTC+8) | - |
dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/97691 | - |
dc.description.abstract (摘要) | This article gives a mystical interpretation of Terrence Malick’s award-winning film, The Tree of Life (2011), arguing that Malick carefully develops two esoteric patterns to structure his visual language: first, a triadic symbolism of divine emanation and return, and second, a complementary alchemical pattern of ascent and descent portraying the process of regeneration. Far from being a doctrinal presentation of Christianity, as some critics suppose, The Tree of Life engages little known but highly influential bodies of esoteric knowledge to offer a visually complex and symmetrical representation of genesis and alchemical transmutation. With the tree of life presented as an initiatory symbol of the axis mundi, Malick’s film portrays creation as a chiastic process, one point of view staging a triadic structure of emanation mysticism and the other offering a magical variation of this pattern in the human struggle for renewal in time. | - |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.relation (關聯) | Religion and the Arts, Vol.19, No.5, pp.552 – 582 | - |
dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Neoplatonism;Kabbalah;Hermeticism;alchemy;renaissance;film;Terrence Malick;mysticism | - |
dc.title (題名) | Codas of Creation: Emanation Mysticism and Alchemical Regeneration in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life | - |
dc.type (資料類型) | article | - |
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) | 10.1163/15685292-01905004 | - |
dc.doi.uri (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-01905004 | - |