The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune : Religious and Historical References within Frank Herbert's Universe

• Tác giả: Frank Jacob
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3963173028
• ISBN-13: 978-3963178511
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 300 Social sciences
• Thông tin xuất bản: Marburg, Germany : Büchner-Verlag, 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (118 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 239223
• Chủ đề: 1. Films, cinema; 2. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; 3. Media studies; 4. Science fiction

Tóm tắt

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.