Publications of Marianna Torgovnick :chronological alphabetical combined bibtex listing:
Books
- Torgovnick, M, Closure in the novel (January, 2017), pp. 1-238, Princeton UP, ISBN 9780691064642 [abs] [author's comments]
- Torgovnick, M, The Novelist's Wife (2015) [abs]
- M. Torgovnick, Loving Tenderness (2013) [abs] [author's comments]
- M. Torgovnick, Picnic in the Dark: The Classics at a Time of War (2013) [abs]
- Torgovnick, M, The War Complex: World War II in Our Time (May, 2005), The University of Chicago Press (Paperback Edition, 2008.) [abs]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (February, 2014)
- Torgovnick, M, Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out, Modern Philology (February, 2014)
- Torgovnick, M, Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria, Italian Americana (February, 2014)
- Torgovnick, M, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic, solicited by Modernism/Modernity (?)
- Torgovnick, M, "The Artist is Present", in Fictions of Art History (2013), Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts [abs] [author's comments]
- Torgovnick, M, Cultual Criticism, in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2013) (Revised edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming..) [author's comments]
- M. Torgovnick, "The Ten Most Common Fears in Literature," TedTalks (2012) [available here]
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M, The Text is Present, in Fictions of Art History (2011), The Clark Art Instutute, Williamstown, Massachusetts [abs]
- Torgovnick, M, Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America, Nanzan Review of American Studies, vol. XXXII (2011) [author's comments]
- Torgovnick, M, Dante, Mourning, Meditation and Me, in How We Write: The Power of Scholarly Form, edited by Bammer, A; Joeres, R-E (2010)
- Torgovnick, M, Crossing Back: A Classic Journey, in Crossing Back: A Classic Journey (2010) [abs] [author's comments]
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M, The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (April, 2009) (Cover story.)
- Torgovnick, M, Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2009)
- Torgovnick, M, It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2009) (Cover story.)
- Torgovnick, M, Archive Fever, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (September, 2008)
- Torgovnick, M, The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (May, 2008)
- Torgovnick, M, Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review (February, 2008)
- Torgovnick, M, Writing Together, Modernist Group Dynamics (2008), Cambridge Scholars
- 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
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M, Primitivism Today, in II Primitivismo, edited by Fortunati, V (2006)
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, American Literature (2006)
- Torgovnick, M, Animals and Aura (2005)
- Torgovnick, M, My Secret Life with Earrings (2004), (Forthcoming in Women and their Accessories).
- Torgovnick, M, Cultural Criticism, in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2003)
- 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.)
- Torgovnick, M, A response to Shoshana Felman, Critical Inquiry, vol. 28 no. 3 (January, 2002), pp. 780-784, University of Chicago Press [doi]
- Torgovnick, M, A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 27 no. 2 (Spring, 2002)
- Torgovnick, M, Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love, in The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence (2001)
- Torgovnick, M, On Michael North’s "Reading 1922", American Literature (2001)
- Torgovnick, M, Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries, Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001)
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Marianna Torgovnick (section), in The Writer’s Journal, edited by Bender, S (1997), New York: Doubleday
- Torgovnick, M, A Writer and Others, Essays in Criticism, vol. 27 (1997), pp. 174-79
- Torgovnick, M, On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst, Partisan Review, vol. 57 (1997), pp. 456-66
- Torgovnick, M, So, What Did Your Mother Think?, in Voices in Italian Americana (1996)
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Interdisciplinarity, PMLA (1996)
- Torgovnick, M, A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals, Yale Review, vol. 84 no. 4 (1996), pp. 1-25
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M, Reviews or review-essays in ADE Bulletin, American Literary History, and Comparative Literature (1994)
- Torgovnick, M, Slasher Stories, New Formations (1993)
- Torgovnick, M, Sticks and Bones, Art Forum (1993) (Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d.)
- TORGOVNICK, M, THE POLITICS OF THE WE, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 91 no. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 43-63, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi]
- TORGOVNICK, M, SKIN AND BOLTS + PIERCING GENITALS, ARTFORUM, vol. 31 no. 4 (1992), pp. 64-65
- TORGOVNICK, M, INTRODUCTION + CULTURAL CRITICISM, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 91 no. 1 (1992), pp. 1-3
- Torgovnick, M, Stuffed Animals, Transition, vol. 54 (1991), pp. 58-67
- 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]
- 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.)
- 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.)
- Torgovnick, M, Review of Mexican Monuments, Art Forum (October, 1989)
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M, Review of W.J.T. Mitchell’s Iconology, Criticism (1988)
- Torgovnick, M, Did We Meet Your Expectations, Novel, vol. 21 no. 2-3 (Winter, 1988), pp. 341-45+
- 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
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Review of David Lubin’s Acts of Portrayal, American Literature (1987)
- Torgovnick, M, Closure 1986, Victorian Newsletter (1987)
- Torgovnick, M, The Godfather as the World’s Most Typical Novel, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 87 no. 2 (Spring, 1987), pp. 329-53
- TORGOVNICK, M, CLOSURE AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, 1986, VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER no. 71 (1987), pp. 4-6
- TORGOVNICK, M, ICONOLOGY - IMAGE, TEXT, IDEOLOGY - MITCHELL,WJT, CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS, vol. 29 no. 4 (1987), pp. 556-557
- Torgovnick, M; Lubin, DM, Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James., American Literature, vol. 58 no. 4 (December, 1986), pp. 643-643, JSTOR [doi]
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Ut Pictura, Novel, vol. 18 no. 1 (Winter, 1985)
- 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]
- Torgovnick, M; Steiner, W; Harpham, GG, Ut pictura..., NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 18 no. 1 (1984), pp. 81-81, JSTOR [doi]
- Torgovnick, M, How to Treat an Adjunct, College Composition and Communication, vol. XXXIII no. 4 (December, 1982), pp. 454-56
- 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]
- 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
- TORGOVNICK, M, SPATIAL FORM IN NARRATIVE - SMITTEN,JR, DAGHISTANY,A, SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY, vol. 81 no. 4 (1982), pp. 475-476
- 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
- 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
- TORGOVNICK, M, NARRATIVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS - PROBLEMS OF CLOSURE IN THE TRADITIONAL NOVEL - MILLER,DA, GENRE, vol. 14 no. 3 (1981), pp. 415-418
- Torgovnick, M, Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl, Twentieth-Century Literature (Winter, 1980), pp. 445-57
- 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]
- TORGOVNICK, M, GESTURAL PATTERN AND MEANING IN THE 'GOLDEN BOWL', TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE, vol. 26 no. 4 (1980), pp. 445-457
- 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
- 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]
- A Writer and Others, Essays in Criticism, vol. 27 no. 2 (Spring 1977), pp. 174-79
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Torgovnick, M, Fifty Shades Cliched, Public Books (June, 2013) [virtual-roundtable-on-fifty-shades-of-grey]
- Torgovnick, M, 9 Documentaries That You Need to See This Year, TEDBlog (April, 2013) [available here]
- Torgovnick, M, The top 10 classic fears in literature, TEDTalks (2012) [available here]
- Torgovnick, M, Let’s re-examine pre-emptive war policy, The Herald Sun (October, 2006), pp. A9-A9
- Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism (1993), Durham: Duke UP; paperback edition, 1993 [author's comments]
- Writing Cultural Criticism, SAQ special issue (1992)