| dc.contributor | 英文系 | |
| dc.creator (作者) | Corrigan, John Michael | |
| dc.date (日期) | 2015 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 15-一月-2016 15:55:21 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 15-一月-2016 15:55:21 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 15-一月-2016 15:55:21 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/80630 | - |
| 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. | |
| dc.format.extent | 161 bytes | - |
| dc.format.mimetype | text/html | - |
| dc.relation (關聯) | Religion & the Arts, 19(5), 552-582 | |
| dc.title (題名) | Codas of Creation | |
| 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 | |
