Publications of Marianna Torgovnick    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Torgovnick, M, Closure in the novel (January, 2017), pp. 1-238, Princeton UP, ISBN 9780691064642  [abs] [author's comments]
  2. Torgovnick, M, The Novelist's Wife (2015)  [abs]
  3. M. Torgovnick, Loving Tenderness (2013)  [abs] [author's comments]
  4. M. Torgovnick, Picnic in the Dark: The Classics at a Time of War (2013)  [abs]
  5. Torgovnick, M, The War Complex: World War II in Our Time (May, 2005), The University of Chicago Press (Paperback Edition, 2008.)  [abs]
  6. Torgovnick, M, Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (1997), Knopf; second printing, Mar. 1997; paperback, U of Chicago P, Sept. 1998  [author's comments]
  7. Torgovnick, M, Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter (1994), U of Chicago P; paperback with new afterword, Dec. 1996 (Winner, American Book Award for 1994.)  [author's comments]
  8. Torgovnick, M, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives (1990), U of Chicago P; second printing 1991 (A New York Times Book Review notable paperback in 1991.)  [author's comments]
  9. Torgovnick, M, The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (1985), Princeton UP (Choice outstanding book, 1986.)

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Torgovnick, M, Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (February, 2014)
  2. Torgovnick, M, Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out, Modern Philology (February, 2014)
  3. Torgovnick, M, Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria, Italian Americana (February, 2014)
  4. Torgovnick, M, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic, solicited by Modernism/Modernity (?)
  5. Torgovnick, M, "The Artist is Present", in Fictions of Art History (2013), Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts  [abs] [author's comments]
  6. Torgovnick, M, Cultual Criticism, in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2013) (Revised edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming..)  [author's comments]
  7. M. Torgovnick, "The Ten Most Common Fears in Literature," TedTalks (2012) [available here]
  8. Torgovnick, M, Adventures in Digital Publishing, in Globalization: Appropriation or Hybridization? English Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Lobal World, Cambridge Scholars (2012), Cambridge U Press, ISBN forthcoming  [author's comments]
  9. Torgovnick, M, The Text is Present, in Fictions of Art History (2011), The Clark Art Instutute, Williamstown, Massachusetts  [abs]
  10. Torgovnick, M, Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America, Nanzan Review of American Studies, vol. XXXII (2011)  [author's comments]
  11. Torgovnick, M, Dante, Mourning, Meditation and Me, in How We Write: The Power of Scholarly Form, edited by Bammer, A; Joeres, R-E (2010)
  12. Torgovnick, M, Crossing Back: A Classic Journey, in Crossing Back: A Classic Journey (2010)  [abs] [author's comments]
  13. Torgovnick, M, Rereading The Iliad in a time of war, PMLA, vol. 124 no. 5 (October, 2009), pp. 1838-1841, Modern Language Association (MLA) [doi]
  14. Torgovnick, M, The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (April, 2009) (Cover story.)
  15. Torgovnick, M, Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2009)
  16. Torgovnick, M, It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2009) (Cover story.)
  17. Torgovnick, M, Archive Fever, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (September, 2008)
  18. Torgovnick, M, The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (May, 2008)
  19. Torgovnick, M, Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (February, 2008)
  20. Torgovnick, M, Writing Together, Modernist Group Dynamics (2008), Cambridge Scholars
  21. Torgovnick, M, The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity, CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS, vol. 49 no. 4 (Fall, 2007), pp. 545-550
  22. Torgovnick, M, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, American Literature, vol. 78 no. 3 (September, 2006), pp. 629-631, Duke University Press [doi]
  23. Torgovnick, M, Primitivism Today, in II Primitivismo, edited by Fortunati, V (2006)
  24. Torgovnick, M, Selling the House, in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, edited by Herman, J; Gutkind, L (2006), pp. 234-44, New York: Other Press
  25. Torgovnick, M, Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, American Literature (2006)
  26. Torgovnick, M, Animals and Aura (2005)
  27. Torgovnick, M, My Secret Life with Earrings (2004), (Forthcoming in Women and their Accessories).
  28. Torgovnick, M, Cultural Criticism, in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2003)
  29. Torgovnick, M, Interview with Duke Writing Group (2003), Published in journal form and as part of a book edited by Jeffrey Williams (With Cathy N. Davidson, Alice Kaplan, and Jane Tompkins.)
  30. Torgovnick, M, A response to Shoshana Felman, Critical Inquiry, vol. 28 no. 3 (January, 2002), pp. 780-784, University of Chicago Press [doi]
  31. Torgovnick, M, A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 27 no. 2 (Spring, 2002)
  32. Torgovnick, M, Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love, in The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence (2001)
  33. Torgovnick, M, On Michael North’s "Reading 1922", American Literature (2001)
  34. Torgovnick, M, Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries, Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001)
  35. Torgovnick, M, Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited, edited by Mudimbe, VY, Diaspora and Immigration SAQ, vol. 98 no. 1/2 (1999), pp. 239-246
  36. Torgovnick, M, Marianna Torgovnick (section), in The Writer’s Journal, edited by Bender, S (1997), New York: Doubleday
  37. Torgovnick, M, A Writer and Others, Essays in Criticism, vol. 27 (1997), pp. 174-79
  38. Torgovnick, M, On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst, Partisan Review, vol. 57 (1997), pp. 456-66
  39. Torgovnick, M, So, What Did Your Mother Think?, in Voices in Italian Americana (1996)
  40. Torgovnick, M, Discovering Jane Ellen Harrison, in Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature, edited by Kaplan, C; Simpson, AB (1996), pp. 131-48, Boston: St. Martin’s Press
  41. Torgovnick, M, Interdisciplinarity, PMLA (1996)
  42. Torgovnick, M, A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals, Yale Review, vol. 84 no. 4 (1996), pp. 1-25
  43. Torgovnick, M, Tracking the men's movement, American Literary History, vol. 6 no. 1 (March, 1994), pp. 155-170, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0896-7148 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  44. Torgovnick, M, Reviews or review-essays in ADE Bulletin, American Literary History, and Comparative Literature (1994)
  45. Torgovnick, M, Slasher Stories, New Formations (1993)
  46. Torgovnick, M, Sticks and Bones, Art Forum (1993) (Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d.)
  47. TORGOVNICK, M, THE POLITICS OF THE WE, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 91 no. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 43-63, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi]
  48. TORGOVNICK, M, SKIN AND BOLTS + PIERCING GENITALS, ARTFORUM, vol. 31 no. 4 (1992), pp. 64-65
  49. TORGOVNICK, M, INTRODUCTION + CULTURAL CRITICISM, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 91 no. 1 (1992), pp. 1-3
  50. Torgovnick, M, Stuffed Animals, Transition, vol. 54 (1991), pp. 58-67
  51. TORGOVNICK, M, Edging Women out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change. Gaye Tuchman, Nina E. Fortin, Modern Philology, vol. 88 no. 2 (November, 1990), pp. 213-215, University of Chicago Press [doi]
  52. On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst, Partisan Review, vol. 57 no. 3 (Summer 1990), pp. 456-66 (Reprinted in Best American Essays of 1991 [prize awarded]; reprinted in approximately twelve anthologies for composition or writing; reprinted in Beyond The Godfather, ed. Jay Parini, 1997.)
  53. Torgovnick, M, Experimental Critical Writing, ADE Bulletin, vol. 96 (1990), pp. 8-11 (Reprinted in Profession 90, 25-28; and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-Fiction, 1998 and several other anthologies.)
  54. Torgovnick, M, Review of Mexican Monuments, Art Forum (October, 1989)
  55. Torgovnick, M, Making Primitive Art High Art, Poetics Today, vol. 10 no. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 299-299, JSTOR, ISSN 0333-5372 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  56. Torgovnick, M, Review of W.J.T. Mitchell’s Iconology, Criticism (1988)
  57. Torgovnick, M, Did We Meet Your Expectations, Novel, vol. 21 no. 2-3 (Winter, 1988), pp. 341-45+
  58. HENKLE, RB; DUYFHUIZEN, B; SPILKA, M; ALTIERI, C; LANGBAUM, R; TORGOVNICK, M; WEED, E; CROSBY, C; FLEISHMAN, A; GOODHEART, E; COHAN, S; GREENE, G; KOELB, C, DISCUSSION + REGARDING WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS, NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION, vol. 21 no. 2-3 (1988), pp. 345-359
  59. TORGOVNICK, M, DID WE MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS + REGARDING WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS, NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION, vol. 21 no. 2-3 (1988), pp. 341-344
  60. Torgovnick, M, Review of David Lubin’s Acts of Portrayal, American Literature (1987)
  61. Torgovnick, M, Closure 1986, Victorian Newsletter (1987)
  62. Torgovnick, M, The Godfather as the World’s Most Typical Novel, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 87 no. 2 (Spring, 1987), pp. 329-53
  63. TORGOVNICK, M, CLOSURE AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, 1986, VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER no. 71 (1987), pp. 4-6
  64. TORGOVNICK, M, ICONOLOGY - IMAGE, TEXT, IDEOLOGY - MITCHELL,WJT, CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS, vol. 29 no. 4 (1987), pp. 556-557
  65. Torgovnick, M; Lubin, DM, Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James., American Literature, vol. 58 no. 4 (December, 1986), pp. 643-643, JSTOR [doi]
  66. Torgovnick, M, Nabokov and his Successors: Pale Fire as a Critical Fable for the Seventies and Eighties, Style, vol. 20 no. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 22-40
  67. Torgovnick, M, Ut Pictura, Novel, vol. 18 no. 1 (Winter, 1985)
  68. Torgovnick, M, The Present and Future States of Novel Criticism, A Hopeful Overview, NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION, vol. 18 no. 3 (Spring, 1985), pp. 199-202, JSTOR, ISSN 0029-5132 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  69. Torgovnick, M; Steiner, W; Harpham, GG, Ut pictura..., NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 18 no. 1 (1984), pp. 81-81, JSTOR [doi]
  70. Torgovnick, M, How to Treat an Adjunct, College Composition and Communication, vol. XXXIII no. 4 (December, 1982), pp. 454-56
  71. Torgovnick, M, How to Handle an Adjunct, College Composition and Communication, vol. 33 no. 4 (December, 1982), pp. 454-454, National Council of Teachers of English [doi]
  72. Torgovnick, M, Review of Spatial Form in Literature, edited by Smitten, JR; Daghistany, A, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 81 no. 4 (Fall, 1982), pp. 475-76
  73. TORGOVNICK, M, SPATIAL FORM IN NARRATIVE - SMITTEN,JR, DAGHISTANY,A, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 81 no. 4 (1982), pp. 475-476
  74. Torgovnick, M, Closure and Shape of Fictions: The Example of Women in Love, in The Study in Time IV, edited by Park, D; Lawrence, N (1981), pp. 147-58, New York: Springer-Verlag
  75. Torgovnick, M, Review-Essay on D.A. Miller’s Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure and the Traditional Novel, Genre (Fall, 1981), pp. 415-18
  76. TORGOVNICK, M, NARRATIVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS - PROBLEMS OF CLOSURE IN THE TRADITIONAL NOVEL - MILLER,DA, GENRE, vol. 14 no. 3 (1981), pp. 415-418
  77. Torgovnick, M, Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl, Twentieth-Century Literature (Winter, 1980), pp. 445-57
  78. Torgovnick, M, Pictorial Elements in 'Women in Love': The Uses of Insinuation and Visual Rhyme, Contemporary Literature, vol. 21 no. 3 (Summer, 1980), pp. 420-434, University of Wisconsin Press, ISSN 1548-9949 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  79. TORGOVNICK, M, GESTURAL PATTERN AND MEANING IN THE 'GOLDEN BOWL', TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE, vol. 26 no. 4 (1980), pp. 445-457
  80. Torgovnick, M, Teaching Freshman English: Observations of a Former Urban Adjunct Instructor, Improving College and University Teaching, vol. 27 no. 4 (Fall, 1979), pp. 147-52
  81. TORGOVNICK, M, James' Sense of an Ending: The Role Played in Its Development by the Popular Conventional Epilogue, Studies in the Novel, vol. 10 no. 2 (Summer, 1978), pp. 183-198, ISSN 1934-1512 [Gateway.cgi]
  82. A Writer and Others, Essays in Criticism, vol. 27 no. 2 (Spring 1977), pp. 174-79
  83. TORGOVNICK, M, JAMES,HENRY - LESSONS OF MASTER - POPULAR FICTION AND PERSONAL STYLE IN 19TH-CENTURY - VEEDER,W, ESSAYS IN CRITICISM, vol. 27 no. 2 (1977), pp. 174-179

Short Stories

  1. WILSON, F; CORRIN, L; TORGOVNICK, M, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, DISCIPLINE-BASED ART EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS (January, 1993), pp. 78-79, GETTY CENTER EDUCATION ARTS, ISBN 0-89236-279-0
  2. TORGOVNICK, M, LEARNING FROM LITERATURE, DISCIPLINE-BASED ART EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS (January, 1993), pp. 68-71, GETTY CENTER EDUCATION ARTS, ISBN 0-89236-279-0

Other

  1. Torgovnick, M, Fifty Shades Cliched, Public Books (June, 2013) [virtual-roundtable-on-fifty-shades-of-grey]
  2. Torgovnick, M, 9 Documentaries That You Need to See This Year, TEDBlog (April, 2013) [available here]
  3. Torgovnick, M, The top 10 classic fears in literature, TEDTalks (2012) [available here]
  4. Torgovnick, M, Let’s re-examine pre-emptive war policy, The Herald Sun (October, 2006), pp. A9-A9
  5. Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism (1993), Durham: Duke UP; paperback edition, 1993  [author's comments]
  6. Writing Cultural Criticism, SAQ special issue (1992)