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Devin Griffiths

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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Les dunes Umpqua de l'Oregon ont inspiré la planète désertique Arrakis dans le roman Dune de Frank Herbert. VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

March 26, 2024

« Dune », fer de lance du mouvement environnemental qui a participé à l’essor de l’écologie

Devin Griffiths, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Lorsque Herbert a commencé à écrire Dune en 1963, il ne songeait pas à quitter la Terre, mais à trouver la meilleure façon de la sauver.

Oregon’s Umpqua Dunes inspired the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune.’ VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

March 15, 2024

How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement − and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology

Devin Griffiths, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.

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