Sax Romer's Use of Oriental Words in His Fiction
dc.creator | Cannon, Garland | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2005-12-07T19:37:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2005-12-07T19:37:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-12-07 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2820 | |
dc.description.abstract | Sax 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. | en |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | Alchemy | en |
dc.subject | Ancient Egypt | en |
dc.subject | Anthropology | en |
dc.subject | Arabic language and culture | en |
dc.subject | Chinese culture and people | en |
dc.subject | Agatha Christie | en |
dc.subject | Comparative Studies | en |
dc.subject | Drugs | en |
dc.subject | Egypt | en |
dc.subject | Fu Manchu | en |
dc.subject | Islam | en |
dc.subject | Sir William Jones | en |
dc.subject | Edward W Lane | en |
dc.subject | Lexicography | en |
dc.subject | Linguistics | en |
dc.subject | Literature | en |
dc.subject | Mahound (=Mahummad) | en |
dc.subject | Oxford English Dictionary | en |
dc.subject | Persian language and culture | en |
dc.subject | Edgar Allen Poe | en |
dc.subject | Pyramids | en |
dc.subject | Sax Rohmer | en |
dc.subject | Semantics | en |
dc.subject | Sociology | en |
dc.subject | Sorcery | en |
dc.subject | Tarzan | en |
dc.subject | Word borrowings | en |
dc.subject | Yello Peril | en |
dc.subject | H. G. Wells | en |
dc.title | Sax Romer's Use of Oriental Words in His Fiction | en |
local.department | English | en |