76 research outputs found
Sax Rohmer's Egyptian intoxication
No full textBook synopsis: 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of one of the world's most notorious fictional villains, the fiendish Dr Fu Manchu, """"the Yellow Peril incarnate in one man"""": master criminal, evil scientist and lord of strange deaths. Fu Manchu's creator, Sax Rohmer (Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1883-1959) was the king of pulp exotica. This groundbreaking collection of essays and appreciations considers the work, contexts and enduring fascination of Rohmer, from fin-de-siecle racial anxieties to Egypt, anarchists, and the occult
Woman as Cat Monster: Sax Rohmer and the Green Eyes of Bast
No full textMonsters fill our nights with nightmares, cause us to shiver in terror and look over our shoulder when we walk down dark streets. In other words, monsters are fun. Famous monsters are often men of despicable shapes and minds: e.g., Count Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy whose tomb has been violated, the werewolf, and Mr. Hyde. The world of female monsters, like their female human counterparts, is often populated by women who depend upon men for their status. Dracula picks beautiful women to become his bloody mates, and Frankenstein tries to take a bride. More frequently, however, women are seen as the prey of male monsters: mummies haunt the bedrooms of sleeping maidens and Mr. Hyde stalks and murders his female victims. l In this chapter, I examine a little-known female monster, the cat-woman monster, as she is depicted by Sax Rohmer (1920) in The Green Eyes of Bast. I discover that female monsters have many traits shared with their male counterparts, as well as distinctively feminine characteristics
Sax Romer's Use of Oriental Words in His Fiction
No full textSax Rohmer (the pseudonym of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1883-1959) was one of the most widely read pop authors in the English-speaking world in the 20th century. His Fu Manchu first appeared in "The Zayat Kiss," in the British magazine Story-Teller (October 1912), followed by the novel The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu in 1913. After World War II Rohmer changed this sinister Chinese arch-criminal into a heroic anti-Communist. Further thrilled by radio versions, feature films, stage plays, television series, and even a Marvel comic book, millions of readers have shuddered in Rohmer's auras of tomb robbers, ancient Egyptian demons haunting asp-infested tunnels beneath the pyramids, voodoo rites and zombies, and vampires, communicated by carefully selected eastern lexical borrowings. In 1951 he introduced the glamorous witch Sumuru as a female Fu Manchu in five well-received novels
Francis Rohmer: from the neurological ward to Dachau and back
No full textABSTRACT The author presents a brief synopsis of the life and works of Professor Francis Rohmer, a French neurologist whose great relevance to the development of the French Neurological Society is only outshined by his humanistic role, in spite of harsh conditions, when a prisoner at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, during World War II.</div
Changing British attitudes to China and the Chinese, 1928-1931
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Francis Rohmer: from the neurological ward to Dachau and back
No full textABSTRACT The author presents a brief synopsis of the life and works of Professor Francis Rohmer, a French neurologist whose great relevance to the development of the French Neurological Society is only outshined by his humanistic role, in spite of harsh conditions, when a prisoner at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, during World War II.</div
Francis Rohmer: from the neurological ward to Dachau and back
No full textABSTRACT The author presents a brief synopsis of the life and works of Professor Francis Rohmer, a French neurologist whose great relevance to the development of the French Neurological Society is only outshined by his humanistic role, in spite of harsh conditions, when a prisoner at the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany, during World War II
Сюжет о «проклятии мумии» в произведениях С. Ромера
No full textРассматриваются рассказы С. Ромера (Sax Rohmer, псевдоним Артура Генри Сарсфилда Уорда, Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward; 1883–1959) «Таинственная мумия» (The Mysterious Mummy, 1903) и «Обезглавленные мумии» (The Headless Mummies). Анализируются особенности сюжета о мумии в данных произведениях
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