The Orientalist Semiotics Of Dune

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178515
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune« written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783963173028
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune« written by Frank Jacob and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178523
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in Film written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human experience of war is not only remembered by societies through memorials, but also through the depiction of wars and important battles of respective national histories on screen. Very often, the image presented is related to existent semiotics, and the respective sign systems determine the image of heroic actions and violence on the screen. The present volume provides a deeper insight into the forces at play when war films are presented on the big screen and intends to show why and how violent conflicts often have an afterlife as visual media as well.

Author : Kara Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031139356
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Herbert's "Dune" written by Kara Kennedy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical study of Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965), the world’s bestselling science fiction novel. Kara Kennedy discusses the novel’s exploration of politics and religion, its influential ecological messages, the focus on the human mind and consciousness, the complex nature of the archetypal hero, and the depiction of women’s influence and control. In Dune, Herbert demonstrated that sophistication, complexity, and a multi-layered world with three-dimensional characters could sit comfortably within the science fiction genre. Underneath its deceptively simple storyline sits a wealth of historical and philosophical contexts and influences that make it a rich masterpiece open to multiple interpretations. Kennedy’s study shows the continuing relevance of the novel in the 21st century due to its classic themes and its concerns about the future of humanity, as well as the ongoing nature of issues such as ecological disruption and conflicts over resources and religion.

Author : Thomas Chi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468108880
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dune: Study of Frank Herbert written by Thomas Chi and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer of the book, Petroleum Oil on Dune by Frank Herbert, publisher Thomas Chi studies the novel Dune as he travels on business for Oil USA to Ankara, Turkey, Cairo, Egypt, and nations along the Mediterranean Sea. Thomas Chi interviews intellectuals from the Middle East who are fascinated with the novels in the series known as Dune. Turkish readers study the hints of caravan routes, leadership intrigue, and the flow of knowledge, spice and wealth from Anatolia to the West by way of the land bridge to the Orient known as Turkey.

Author : Ron Beasley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110888009
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persuasive Signs written by Ron Beasley and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using both verbal and nonverbal techniques to make its messages as persuasive as possible, advertising has become an integral component of modern-day social discourse designed to influence attitudes and lifestyle behaviors by covertly suggesting how we can best satisfy our innermost urges and aspirations through consumption. This book looks at the categories of this form of discourse from the standpoint of semiotic analysis. It deals with the signifying processes that underlie advertising messages in print, electronic, and digital form.

Author : Giuseppe Palumbo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441108718
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Translation Studies written by Giuseppe Palumbo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms in Translation Studies gives a comprehensive overview of the concepts which students of translation studies are likely to encounter during their study, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. The book includes definitions of key terms within the discipline, as well as outlines of the work of key thinkers in the field, including Eugene A. Nida, Gideon Toury, Hans J. Vermeer, and Lawrence Venuti. The list of key readings is intended to direct students towards classic articles, as well providing a springboard to further study. Accessibly written, with complicated terms and concepts explained in an easy to understand way, Key Terms in Translation Studies is an essential resource for students.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000330621
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Semiotics written by Frank Jacob and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or reasonable. The semiotic systems of wars are central to the discussion of the contributions within this volume, which highlight the interrelationship of semiotic systems and their constructions during wars in different periods of history.

Author : Inge E. Boer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203717
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncertain Territories written by Inge E. Boer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as frame, as home (or lack of it), Boer shows that boundaries are spaces within, through, and in the name of which negotiations take place. They are not lines but spaces ; neither fixed nor empty but flexible and inhabited. With the publication of this book, Boer’s intellectual legacy stretches beyond her untimely passing. The writings that she left behind can be said to have inaugurated the future of her work, presented in the latter part by several of Boer’s intellectual companions. In their original essays, the contributors elaborate on Boer’s theme of boundaries as spaces where opposition yields to negotiation. Committed to the artefact as cultural stimulant, as the embodiment of thought, their analyses span a multitude of artefacts and media, ranging from literature to photography, to art installation and presentation, to film and song. Fanning out from Boer ‘s central focus – Orientalism – to other places of contestation, boundaries are shown to mediate the relationship between self and other ; they are, ultimately, spaces of encounter.

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113481
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtual Geography written by McKenzie Wark and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice "... a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals.