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Publications of Marianna Torgovnick     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  The Way We Live Now.  Forthcoming. (A collection of four long essays defining salient aspects of twenty-first century life: "What Comes After Postmodernism?" "Species Talk," "Talking about Sex," "Perpetual War." All in gestation period.)
  2.  Reading Contemporary Fiction: A Report from and in the Classroom.  in progress.  [author's comments]
  3.  The War Complex. The University of Chicago Press, May 2005, 2005.  [abs]
  4.  Modernity Projects.  in progress. (A collection of essays exploring categories through which the twentieth century can be rethought for the twenty first. Emphasis on literary, historical, and scientific texts that became the subject of multiple media representations and on how technologies of representation have shaped cultural memory)
  5.  Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy. Knopf; second printing, Mar. 1997; paperback, U of Chicago P, Sept. 1998, 1997.  [author's comments]
  6.  Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter. U of Chicago P; paperback with new afterword, Dec. 1996, 1994. (Winner, American Book Award for 1994)  [author's comments]
  7.  Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. U of Chicago P; second printing 1991, 1990. (A New York Times Book Review notable paperback in 1991)  [author's comments]
  8.  The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf. Princeton UP, 1985. (Choice outstanding book, 1986)
  9.  Closure in the Novel. Princeton UP, 1981.  [author's comments]

Edited

  1.  Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism.  Durham: Duke UP; paperback edition, 1993, 1993.  [author's comments]
  2.  Writing Cultural Criticism. SAQ special issue  (Winter 1992).

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. "Selling the House." Our Roots Are Deep with Passion. Ed. Joanna Herman and Lee Gutkind. New York: Other Press, 2006. 234-44.
  2. "Primitivism Today." II Primitivismo. Ed. Vita Fortunati.  forthcoming.
  3. "Animals and Aura."  
  4. "My Secret Life with Earrings."  (Forthcoming in Women and their Accessories).,
  5. "Cultural Criticism." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.  n.d..
  6. "Interview with Duke Writing Group."  Published in journal form and as part of a book edited by Jeffrey Williams,  With Cathy N. Davidson, Alice Kaplan, and Jane Tompkins
  7. "A Response to Shosana Felman's 'Theatres of Justice'." Critical Inquiry 27.2 (Spring, 2002)
  8. "Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries." Encyclopedia of American Studies  (2001)
  9. "Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love." The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence.  2001. 
  10. "Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited." Diaspora and Immigration SAQ Ed. V. Y. Mudimbe. 98.1/2 (1999): 239-246.
  11. "Marianna Torgovnick (section)." The Writer's Journal. Ed. Shiela Bender. New York: Doubleday, 1997. 
  12. "A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals." Yale Review 84.4 (Oct. 1996): 1-25.
  13. "Discovering Jane Ellen Harrison." Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature. Ed. Carola Kaplan and Anne B. Simpson. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 131-48.
  14. "So, What Did Your Mother Think?." Voices in Italian Americana.  1996. 
  15. "Interdisciplinarity." PMLA  (1996)
  16. "Tracking the Men's Movement." American Literary History VI.1 (1994): 155-70.
  17. "Sticks and Bones." Art Forum  (1993)  Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d
  18. "Slasher Stories." New Formations  (1993)
  19. "The Politics of the We." SAQ  (Winter 1992)
  20. "Stuffed Animals." Transition 54 (1991): 58-67.
  21. "On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst." Partisan Review 57.3 (Summer 1990): 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
  22. "Making Primitive Art High Art." Poetics Today, special issue on interdisciplinary studies  (Summer 1990)
  23. "Experimental Critical Writing." ADE Bulletin 96 (1990): 8-11.  Reprinted in Profession 90, 25-28; and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-Fiction, 1998 and several other anthologies
  24. "Did We Meet Your Expectations." Novel 21.2/3 (Winter/Spring 1988): 341-45+.
  25. "The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel." South Atlantic Quarterly 87.2 (Spring 1988): 329-53.
  26. "Closure 1986." Victorian Newsletter  (1987)
  27. "Nabokov and his Successors: Pale Fire as a Critical Fable for the Seventies and Eighties." Style 20.1 (Spring 1986): 22-40.
  28. "Ut Pictura." Novel 18.1 (Winter 1985)
  29. "The Present and Future States of Novel Criticism: A Hopeful Overview." Novel 18.3 (Spring 1985)
  30. "How to Treat an Adjunct." College Composition and Communication XXXIII.4 (Dec. 1982): 454-56.
  31. "Closure and Shape of Fictions: The Example of Women in Love." The Study in Time IV. Ed. David Park and Nathaniel Lawrence. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981. 147-58.
  32. "Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl." Twentieth-Century Literature  (Winter 1980): 445-57.
  33. "Pictorial Elements in Women in Love: The Use of Insinuation and Visual Rhyme." Contemporary Literature 21.3 (Summer 1980): 420-34.
  34. "Teaching Freshman English: Observations of a Former Urban Adjunct Instructor." Improving College and University Teaching 27.4 (Fall 1979): 147-52.
  35. "James's Sense of an Ending: The Role Played in Its Development by the Popular Conventional Epilogue." Studies in the Novel 10.2 (Summer 1978): 183-98.
  36. "A Writer and Others." Essays in Criticism 27.2 (Spring 1977): 174-79.
  37. "Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic." solicited by Modernism/Modernity  (?)

Book Reviews

  1.  Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word.  American Literature (2006).
  2.  Review, Michael north, 'Reading 1922'.  American Literature (2001).
  3.  Reviews or review-essays in ADE Bulletin, American Literary History, and Comparative Literature.  1994.
  4.  Review of Mexican Monuments.  Art Forum (Oct. 1989).
  5.  Review of W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology.  Criticism (1988).
  6.  Review of David Lubin's Acts of Portrayal.  American Literature (1987).
  7.  Review of Spatial Form in Literature. ed. Jeffrey R. Smitten and Ann Daghistany. South Atlantic Quarterly 81.4 (Autumn 1982): 475-76.
  8.  Review-Essay on D.A. Miller's Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure and the Traditional Novel.  Genre (Fall 1981): 415-18.
  9.  Review of Robert Viscusi's Astoria.  Italian Americana .
  10.  Review of Barbara Tuchman's Edging Women Out.  Modern Philology .
  11.  Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth's Realism and Consensus in the English Novel.  Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography .

Other

  1. "Let's re-examine pre-emptive war policy." The Herald Sun (October 1, 2006): A9.

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