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Publications of Marianna Torgovnick    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Torgovnick, M. Closure in the novel.  Princeton UP, January, 2017 (1-238 pp.).  [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.  The University of Chicago Press, May, 2005. (Paperback Edition, 2008)  [abs]
  6. Torgovnick, M. 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. Torgovnick, M. 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. Torgovnick, M. 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. Torgovnick, M. The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf.  Princeton UP, 1985. (Choice outstanding book, 1986)

Articles in a Collection

  1. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel." . February, 2014.
  2. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out." . February, 2014.
  3. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria." . February, 2014.
  4. Torgovnick, M. "Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic." . ?.
  5. Torgovnick, M. ""The Artist is Present"." Fictions of Art History. Clark Art Institute, 2013.  [abs]  [author's comments]
  6. Torgovnick, M. "Cultual Criticism." 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." Globalization: Appropriation or Hybridization? English Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Lobal World. Cambridge ScholarsCambridge U Press, 2012.  [author's comments]
  9. Torgovnick, M. "The Text is Present." Fictions of Art History. The Clark Art Instutute, 2011.  [abs]
  10. Torgovnick, M. "Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America." . 2011.  [author's comments]
  11. Torgovnick, M. "Dante, Mourning, Meditation and Me." How We Write: The Power of Scholarly Form Ed. Bammer, A; Joeres, R-E. 2010.
  12. Torgovnick, M. "Crossing Back: A Classic Journey." Crossing Back: A Classic Journey. 2010.  [abs]  [author's comments]
  13. Torgovnick, M. "Rereading The Iliad in a time of war." . Modern Language Association (MLA), October, 2009, 1838-1841. [doi]
  14. Torgovnick, M. "The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment." . April, 2009. (Cover story)
  15. Torgovnick, M. "Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s." . 2009.
  16. Torgovnick, M. "It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today." . 2009. (Cover story)
  17. Torgovnick, M. "Archive Fever." . September, 2008.
  18. Torgovnick, M. "The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York." . May, 2008.
  19. Torgovnick, M. "Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History." . February, 2008.
  20. Torgovnick, M. "Writing Together." . Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
  21. Torgovnick, M. "On Victor Li’s "The Neo-Primitivist Turn"." . Fall, 2007, 545-550.
  22. Torgovnick, M. "Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word." . Duke University Press, September, 2006, 629-631. [doi]
  23. Torgovnick, M. "Primitivism Today." II Primitivismo Ed. Fortunati, V. 2006.
  24. Torgovnick, M. "Selling the House." Our Roots Are Deep with Passion Ed. Herman, J; Gutkind, L. New York: Other Press, 2006, 234-44.
  25. Torgovnick, M. "Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word." . 2006.
  26. Torgovnick, M. "Animals and Aura." . 2005.
  27. Torgovnick, M. "My Secret Life with Earrings." . (Forthcoming in Women and their Accessories)., 2004.
  28. Torgovnick, M. "Cultural Criticism." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. 2003.
  29. Torgovnick, M. "Interview with Duke Writing Group." . Published in journal form and as part of a book edited by Jeffrey Williams, 2003. (With Cathy N. Davidson, Alice Kaplan, and Jane Tompkins)
  30. Torgovnick, M. "A response to Shoshana Felman." . University of Chicago Press, January, 2002, 780-784. [doi]
  31. Torgovnick, M. "A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’." . Spring, 2002.
  32. Torgovnick, M. "Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love." The Cambridge Companion to D.H. Lawrence. 2001.
  33. Torgovnick, M. "On Michael North’s "Reading 1922"." . 2001.
  34. Torgovnick, M. "Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries." . 2001.
  35. Torgovnick, M. "Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited."  Ed. Mudimbe, VY. 1999, 239-246.
  36. Torgovnick, M. "Marianna Torgovnick (section)." The Writer’s Journal Ed. Bender, S. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
  37. Torgovnick, M. "A Writer and Others." . 1997, 174-79.
  38. Torgovnick, M. "On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst." . 1997, 456-66.
  39. Torgovnick, M. "So, What Did Your Mother Think?." Voices in Italian Americana. 1996.
  40. Torgovnick, M. "Discovering Jane Ellen Harrison." Seeing Double: Revisioning Edwardian and Modernist Literature Ed. Kaplan, C; Simpson, AB. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1996, 131-48.
  41. Torgovnick, M. "Interdisciplinarity." . 1996.
  42. Torgovnick, M. "A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals." . 1996, 1-25.
  43. Torgovnick, M. "Tracking the men's movement." . Oxford University Press (OUP), March, 1994, 155-170. [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." . 1993.
  46. Torgovnick, M. "Sticks and Bones." . 1993. (Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d)
  47. TORGOVNICK, M. "THE POLITICS OF THE WE." . Winter, 1992, 43-63. [Gateway.cgi]
  48. TORGOVNICK, M. "SKIN AND BOLTS + PIERCING GENITALS." . 1992, 64-65.
  49. TORGOVNICK, M. "INTRODUCTION + CULTURAL CRITICISM." . 1992, 1-3.
  50. Torgovnick, M. "Stuffed Animals." . 1991, 58-67.
  51. TORGOVNICK, M. "Edging Women out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change. Gaye Tuchman, Nina E. Fortin." . University of Chicago Press, November, 1990, 213-215. [doi]
  52.  "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)
  53. Torgovnick, M. "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)
  54. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Mexican Monuments." . October, 1989.
  55. Torgovnick, M. "Making Primitive Art High Art." . JSTOR, Summer, 1989, 299-299. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  56. Torgovnick, M. "Review of W.J.T. Mitchell’s Iconology." . 1988.
  57. Torgovnick, M. "Did We Meet Your Expectations." . Winter, 1988, 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." . 1988, 345-359.
  59. TORGOVNICK, M. "DID WE MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS + REGARDING WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS." . 1988, 341-344.
  60. Torgovnick, M. "Review of David Lubin’s Acts of Portrayal." . 1987.
  61. Torgovnick, M. "Closure 1986." . 1987.
  62. Torgovnick, M. "The Godfather as the World’s Most Typical Novel." . Spring, 1987, 329-53.
  63. TORGOVNICK, M. "CLOSURE AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, 1986." . 1987, 4-6.
  64. TORGOVNICK, M. "ICONOLOGY - IMAGE, TEXT, IDEOLOGY - MITCHELL,WJT." . 1987, 556-557.
  65. Torgovnick, M; Lubin, DM. "Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James.." . JSTOR, December, 1986, 643-643. [doi]
  66. TORGOVNICK, M. "NABOKOV AND HIS SUCCESSORS - 'PALE FIRE' AS A FABLE FOR CRITICS IN THE 70S AND 80S." . Spring, 1986, 22-41.
  67. Torgovnick, M. "Ut Pictura." . Winter, 1985.
  68. Torgovnick, M. "The Present and Future States of Novel Criticism, A Hopeful Overview." . JSTOR, Spring, 1985, 199-202. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  69. Torgovnick, M; Steiner, W; Harpham, GG. "Ut pictura...." . JSTOR, 1984, 81-81. [doi]
  70. Torgovnick, M. "How to Treat an Adjunct." . December, 1982, 454-56.
  71. Torgovnick, M. "How to Handle an Adjunct." . National Council of Teachers of English, December, 1982, 454-454. [doi]
  72. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Spatial Form in Literature."  Ed. Smitten, JR; Daghistany, A. Fall, 1982, 475-76.
  73. TORGOVNICK, M. "SPATIAL FORM IN NARRATIVE - SMITTEN,JR, DAGHISTANY,A." . 1982, 475-476.
  74. Torgovnick, M. "Closure and Shape of Fictions: The Example of Women in Love." The Study in Time IV Ed. Park, D; Lawrence, N. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981, 147-58.
  75. Torgovnick, M. "Review-Essay on D.A. Miller’s Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure and the Traditional Novel." . Fall, 1981, 415-18.
  76. TORGOVNICK, M. "NARRATIVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS - PROBLEMS OF CLOSURE IN THE TRADITIONAL NOVEL - MILLER,DA." . 1981, 415-418.
  77. Torgovnick, M. "Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl." . Winter, 1980, 445-57.
  78. Torgovnick, M. "Pictorial Elements in 'Women in Love': The Uses of Insinuation and Visual Rhyme." . University of Wisconsin Press, Summer, 1980, 420-434. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  79. TORGOVNICK, M. "GESTURAL PATTERN AND MEANING IN THE 'GOLDEN BOWL'." . 1980, 445-457.
  80. Torgovnick, M. "Teaching Freshman English: Observations of a Former Urban Adjunct Instructor." . Fall, 1979, 147-52.
  81. TORGOVNICK, M. "James' Sense of an Ending: The Role Played in Its Development by the Popular Conventional Epilogue." . Summer, 1978, 183-198. [Gateway.cgi]
  82.  "A Writer and Others." . Spring 1977, 174-79.
  83. TORGOVNICK, M. "JAMES,HENRY - LESSONS OF MASTER - POPULAR FICTION AND PERSONAL STYLE IN 19TH-CENTURY - VEEDER,W." . 1977, 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): 78-79.
  2. TORGOVNICK, M. "LEARNING FROM LITERATURE." DISCIPLINE-BASED ART EDUCATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY, SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS  (January, 1993): 68-71.

Other

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