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Research Interests for Marianna Torgovnick

Research Interests: British Literature; 20th Century/Modernist Studies; American Studies; Film; Media Studies; Cultural Criticism, Art, Religion, and Anthropology

Marianna Torgovnick writes on the novel and novel theory, film, postcolonialism, modernism, and the twentieth century more generally, and especially on contemporary American culture. Her work is broadlyn interdisciplinary and has been taught in Art History, Anthropology, and Religion courses as well as English, Literature, and Theory. She has published Closure in the Novel (Princeton, 1981), and The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (Princeton, 1985), Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives (Chicago, 1990), and Crossing Ocean Parkway (Chicago, 1994), for which she won an American Book Award, and Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (Knopf, 1997; paperback Chicago, 1998) and The War Complex: World War II in Our Time, about memories and perceptions of the Second War World in the Twenty First Century. She has also written series of articles for general interest publications. Professor Torgovnick currently directs The Duke in New York Arts and Media Program, taught in New York. She returns to teach America Dreams American Movies to a large enrollment each year. For more information, visit her website www.mariannatorgovnick.com

Keywords:
Novels, Modernism, Anthropology and Literature, Religion and Literature, Women's Studies, Film, American Studies, Media Studies
Current projects:
A fact-based re-imagining of a famous author's wife.
PICNIC IN THE DARK: The Classics at a Time of War
www.mariannatorgovnick.tumblr.com: a blog
Marianna_tor, a Twitter feed
Areas of Interest:

American Literature and Culture
19th-20th Century Novel
British Literature and Culture
Film
Media Studies
Film

Recent Publications
  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. Torgovnick, M, Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography (February, 2014)
  4. Torgovnick, M, Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out, Modern Philology (February, 2014)
  5. Torgovnick, M, Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria, Italian Americana (February, 2014)

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