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Publications of Marianna Torgovnick     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Letting Loose in the Great Depression. forthcoming. (Incorporating material from the 1930s in earlier project (now shelved) on New York destruction materials.)
  2.  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.)
  3.  Reading Contemporary Fiction: A Report from and in the Classroom. in progress.  [author's comments]
  4.  The War Complex.  The University of Chicago Press, May, 2005. (Paperback Edition, 2008)  [abs]
  5.  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)
  6.  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]
  7.  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]
  8.  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]
  9.  The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf.  Princeton UP, 1985. (Choice outstanding book, 1986)
  10.  Closure in the Novel.  Princeton UP, 1981.  [author's comments]

Edited Volumes

  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 ().

Articles in a Collection

  1.  "Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s." . forthcoming.
  2.  "Archive Fever." . September, 2008.
  3.  "The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York." . May, 2008.
  4.  "Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History." . February, 2008.
  5.  "Writing Together." . Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
  6.  "Selling the House." Our Roots Are Deep with Passion Ed. Joanna Herman and Lee Gutkind. New York: Other Press, 2006, 234-44.
  7.  "Primitivism Today." II Primitivismo Ed. Vita Fortunati. forthcoming.
  8.  "Animals and Aura." . 2005.
  9.  "My Secret Life with Earrings." . (Forthcoming in Women and their Accessories)., 2004.
  10.  "Cultural Criticism." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. n.d..
  11.  "Interview with Duke Writing Group." . Published in journal form and as part of a book edited by Jeffrey Williams, n.d.. (With Cathy N. Davidson, Alice Kaplan, and Jane Tompkins)
  12.  "A Response to Shosana Felman's 'Theatres of Justice'." . Spring, 2002.
  13.  "Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries." . 2001.
  14.  "Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love." The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence. 2001.
  15.  "Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited."  Ed. V. Y. Mudimbe. 1999, 239-246.
  16.  "Marianna Torgovnick (section)." The Writer's Journal Ed. Shiela Bender. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
  17.  "A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals." . Oct. 1996, 1-25.
  18.  "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.
  19.  "So, What Did Your Mother Think?." Voices in Italian Americana. 1996.
  20.  "Interdisciplinarity." . 1996.
  21.  "Tracking the Men's Movement." . 1994, 155-70.
  22.  "Sticks and Bones." . 1993. (Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d)
  23.  "Slasher Stories." . 1993.
  24.  "The Politics of the We." . Winter 1992.
  25.  "Stuffed Animals." . 1991, 58-67.
  26.  "On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst." . 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)
  27.  "Making Primitive Art High Art." . Summer 1990.
  28.  "Experimental Critical Writing." . 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)
  29.  "Did We Meet Your Expectations." . Winter/Spring 1988, 341-45+.
  30.  "The Godfather as the World's Most Typical Novel." . Spring 1988, 329-53.
  31.  "Closure 1986." . 1987.
  32.  "Nabokov and his Successors: Pale Fire as a Critical Fable for the Seventies and Eighties." . Spring 1986, 22-40.
  33.  "Ut Pictura." . Winter 1985.
  34.  "The Present and Future States of Novel Criticism: A Hopeful Overview." . Spring 1985.
  35.  "How to Treat an Adjunct." . Dec. 1982, 454-56.
  36.  "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.
  37.  "Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl." . Winter 1980, 445-57.
  38.  "Pictorial Elements in Women in Love: The Use of Insinuation and Visual Rhyme." . Summer 1980, 420-34.
  39.  "Teaching Freshman English: Observations of a Former Urban Adjunct Instructor." . Fall 1979, 147-52.
  40.  "James's Sense of an Ending: The Role Played in Its Development by the Popular Conventional Epilogue." . Summer 1978, 183-98.
  41.  "A Writer and Others." . Spring 1977, 174-79.
  42.  "Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic." . ?.

Book Reviews

  1.  On Victor Li's "The Neo-Primitivist Turn". Criticism 49:4 (Fall, 2007): 545-550.
  2.  Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word. American Literature  (2006).
  3.  On Michael North's "Reading 1922". American Literature  (2001).
  4.  Reviews or review-essays in ADE Bulletin, American Literary History, and Comparative Literature.   (1994).
  5.  Review of Mexican Monuments. Art Forum  (Oct. 1989).
  6.  Review of W.J.T. Mitchell's Iconology. Criticism  (1988).
  7.  Review of David Lubin's Acts of Portrayal. American Literature  (1987).
  8.  Review of Spatial Form in Literature. South Atlantic Quarterly 81:4 (Autumn 1982): 475-76.
  9.  Review-Essay on D.A. Miller's Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure and the Traditional Novel. Genre  (Fall 1981): 415-18.
  10.  Review of Robert Viscusi's Astoria. Italian Americana  ().
  11.  Review of Barbara Tuchman's Edging Women Out. Modern Philology  ().
  12.  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."  October 1, 2006: A9.