The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune Religious and Historical References within Frank Herbert's Universe

• Main Author: Jacob, Frank (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Büchner-Verlag 2022
• Subjects: 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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Summary

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (118 p.)

ISBN

978-3-96317-851-1
9783963173028

Access

Open Access