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The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune«

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178515
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 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.

The Orientalist Semiotics of »Dune«

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783963173028
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 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:

War in Film

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963178523
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 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.

Frank Herbert's "Dune"

Author : Kara Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031139356
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 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.

Dune: Study of Frank Herbert

Author : Thomas Chi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468108880
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 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.

Persuasive Signs

Author : Ron Beasley
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110888009
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 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.

Key Terms in Translation Studies

Author : Giuseppe Palumbo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441108718
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 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.

War and Semiotics

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000330621
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 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.

Turkish Cinema

Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895836
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Turkish Cinema written by Gönül Dönmez-Colin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films often act as a prism that refracts the issues facing a nation, and Turkish cinema in particular serves to encapsulate the cultural and social turmoil of modern-day Turkey. Acclaimed film scholar Gönül Dönmez-Colin examines here the way that national cinema reveals the Turkish quest for a modern identity. Marked by continually shifting ethnic demographics, politics, and geographic borders, Turkish society struggles to reconcile modern attitudes with traditional morals and centuries-old customs. Dönmez-Colin examines how contemporary Turkish filmmakers address this struggle in their cinematic works, positing that their films revolve around ideas of migration and exile, and give voice to previously subsumed “denied identities” such as that of the Kurds. Turkish Cinema also crucially examines how these films confront taboo subjects such as homosexuality, incest, and honor killings, issues that have only become viable subjects of discussion in the new generation of Turkish citizens. A deftly written and thought-provoking study, Turkish Cinema will be invaluable for scholars of Middle East studies and cinephiles alike.

Thank You for Dying for Our Country

Author : Chaim Noy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273216
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Thank You for Dying for Our Country written by Chaim Noy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts of participation are authored and composed. The study contextualizes the visitor book within the material and ideological environment where it is positioned and where it functions. The semiotics of commemoration are mirrored in the visitor book, which functions as a participatory platform that becomes an extension of the commemorative spaces in the museum. The study addresses tourists' and visitors' texts, i.e. the commemorative entries in the book, which are succinct dialogical utterances. Through these public performances, individuals and groups of visitors align and affiliate with a larger imagined national community. Reading the entries allows a unique perspective on communication practices and processes, and vividly illustrates such concepts as genre, voice, addressivity, indexicality, and the very acts of writing and reading. The book's many entries tell stories of affirming, but also resisting the narrative tenets of Zionist national identity, and they illustrate the politics of gender and ethnicity in Israel society. The book presents many ethnographic observations and interviews, which were done both with the management of the site (Ammunition Hill National Memorial Site), and with the visitors themselves. The observations shed light on processes and practices involved in writing and reading, and on how visitors decide on what to write and how they collaborate on drafting their entries. The interviews with the site's management also illuminate the commemoration projects, and how museums and exhibitions are staged and managed.

Uncertain Territories

Author : Inge E. Boer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203717
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 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.

The History of Science Fiction

Author : A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554652
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The History of Science Fiction written by A. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.

Virtual Geography

Author : McKenzie Wark
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113481
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (134 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.

Archaeologies of the Future

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789602998
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of the Future written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, investigates the development of this form since Thomas More, and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age. The relationship between utopia and science fiction is explored through the representations of otherness . alien life and alien worlds . and a study of the works of Philip K. Dick, Ursula LeGuin, William Gibson, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson and more. Jameson's essential essays, including "The Desire Called Utopia," conclude with an examination of the opposing positions on utopia and an assessment of its political value today.

Rosa Luxemburg

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Büchner-Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3963177896
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Rosa Luxemburg written by Frank Jacob and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosa Luxemburg lived a revolutionary life which determined her theoretical reflections about revolution and the role of the masses within it. The present study provides an analysis of Luxemburg's thoughts about and experiences with revolutionary processes and shows how she further developed Marxist ideas about the path and methods to achieve a democratic socialism as the result of a successful revolution. Next to the theoretical debate with Eduard Bernstein and her experiences during the Russian Revolution of 1905, the book also takes a closer look at Luxemburg's theoretical reflections about revolution in the years before and during the First World War, the Russian Revolution of 1917 as well as the German Revolution of 1918/19. The book therefore offers a concise analysis of Luxemburg's life as well as her combination of revolution theory and revolutionary practice.

The Arabic Freud

Author : Omnia El Shakry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691174792
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Arabic Freud written by Omnia El Shakry and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi—al-la-shu‘ur—as a translation for Sigmund Freud’s concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams had been translated into Arabic for an eager Egyptian public. In The Arabic Freud, Omnia El Shakry challenges the notion of a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by tracing how postwar thinkers in Egypt blended psychoanalytic theories with concepts from classical Islamic thought in a creative encounter of ethical engagement. Drawing on scholarly writings as well as popular literature on self-healing, El Shakry provides the first in-depth examination of psychoanalysis in Egypt and reveals how a new science of psychology—or “science of the soul,” as it came to be called—was inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism. She explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in areas as diverse as psychology, Islamic philosophy, and the law. Founding figures of Egyptian psychoanalysis, she shows, debated the temporality of the psyche, mystical states, the sexual drive, and the Oedipus complex, while offering startling insights into the nature of psychic life, ethics, and eros. This provocative and insightful book invites us to rethink the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion in the modern era. Mapping the points of intersection between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought, it illustrates how the Arabic Freud, like psychoanalysis itself, was elaborated across the space of human difference.

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan

Author : Aike P. Rots
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474289959
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan written by Aike P. Rots and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.