The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune : Religious and Historical References within Frank Herbert's Universe
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ArticleLanguage: English Publication details: Büchner-Verlag 2022Description: 1 electronic resource (118 p.)ISBN: - 978-3-96317-851-1
- 9783963173028
- Media studies
- Films, cinema
- Science fiction
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
- Lawrence of Arabia; Frank Herbert; Paul of Arrakis; Paul Atreides; colonialism; Dune; human collectivism; human-animal relations; T.E. Lawrence; political elitism; semiotics; science fiction; Denis Villeneuve; cross-generational audience; ecology; desert planet; religion; orientalism
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Frank Herbert's »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe - ›spice‹ - is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually turns into a superhuman being. However, the novel is also rich of orientalist semiotics and relates to a sign system existent when Herbert wrote his book. Frank Jacob discusses these semiotics in detail and shows how much of »Lawrence of Arabia« is present in the story's plot.
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