Pearl Buck, a Nob(e)le Lady Speaking to/of the Masses in/from the Land of Logocracy
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.629Keywords:
Pearl Buck, masscult, literature and society storytelling, Anglo-American LiteratureAbstract
The paper proposes an analysis of Pearl Buck’s Nobel Prize for Literature (1938) in the light of the then forming transmedia storytelling and populism. It cross reads Buck’s literary productions in relation to the film adaptation of her masterpiece The Good Earth, as well as of the mass culture of her time; the goal is to show the appropriation of cultural production to facilitate public euphemism and mainstream ‘historical’ storytelling, as well as Buck’s counter-narratives and original poetics.References
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Warners, Michael. The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928.
Buck, Pearl (with Eslanda Goode Robeson). American Argument. New York: John Day, 1949.
Buck, Pearl (with Theodore F. Harris). For Spacious Skies. Journey in Dialogue. The John Day Company New York, 1966.
Buck, Pearl. “American Imperialism in the Making.” Asia (August 1945): 365-368.
---. American Unity and Asia. New York: John Day, 1942.
---. “Americans in Distress.” United Nation World 1 (April 1947): 26-29.
---. “Nobel Lecture.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1938/buck/lecture/. All websites have been visited on 25/07/2019.
---. “Novelist Pearl S. Buck Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1966)” YouTube, uploaded by Merv GriffinShow, 14 December 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMED93CAkE.
---. The Good Earth. New York: John Day, 1931.
---. “We Need Most of All, The World View.” New York Times Magazine 28 April 1946: 11, 55, 57-58.
---. What America Means to Me. New York: John Day, 1943.
Chomsky, Noam. Profit over People. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998.
Corelli, Rae. “The Great Gulf Between U.S., Russ Spies.” Daily Star 2 June 1960: 25.
Eco, Umberto. “Il problema della definizione generale dell’arte.” 1963. La definizione dell’arte. Milano: Mursia, 1990. 129-159.
---. “La struttura del cattivo gusto.” Apocalittici e integrati. Comunicazioni di massa e teorie della cultura di massa. Milano: Bompiani, 1964. 65-129.
Gennero, Valeria. “Intercultural Mediation and Subversive Patriotism in Pearl Buck’s Wartime Writings.” Iperstoria 25 (February 2011).
Hocking, William Ernest, Chairman. The Commission of Approval. Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen's Inquiry After One Hundred Years. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932.
Hunt, Michael H. “Pearl Buck—Popular Expert on China, 1931-1949.” Modern China 3.1(1977): 36-64.
Irving, Washington. Salmagundi. (1807). New York: T.Y.Crowell, 1911.
Leavy, Patricia. Iconic Events: Media Politics and Power in Retelling History. New York: Lexington Books, 2007.
Macdonald, Dwight. Against the American Grain. Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture. New York: Random House, 1962.
---. “Masscult and Midcult. I.” Partisan Review 27.2 (1960): 203-233.
---. “Masscult and Midcult. II.” Partisan Review 27.4 (1960): 589-631.
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. 1962. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
---. The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man. 1951. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2002.
---. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 1964. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003.
---. “What Television Does Best.” marshallmcluhanspeaks.com.
http://www.marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/interview/1976-what-television-does-best/index.html.
Melvin, Sheila. “Pearl’s Great Price.” Wilson Quarterly 30.2 (2006): 24-30.
Mumford, Lewis. The Pentagon of Power. The Myth of the Machine vol. II. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
Nye, Joseph S. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. 2004. New York: PublicAffairs, 2005.
Sabin, Roger. Adult Comics: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Shaffer, Robert. “Women and International Relations: Pearl S. Buck’s Critique of the Cold War.” Journal of Women’s History 11.3 (1999): 151-175.
“The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1938/summary/.
Warners, Michael. The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
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