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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.  [abs]
  2. Torgovnick, M. The Novelist's Wife. 2015.  [abs]
  3. M. Torgovnick. Loving Tenderness. 2013.  [abs]
  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.
  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)
  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)
  9. Torgovnick, M. The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf.  Princeton UP, 1985. (Choice outstanding book, 1986)

Papers Published

  1. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth’s Realism and Consensus in the English Novel." Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography  (February, 2014).
  2. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Barbara Tuchman’s Edging Women Out." Modern Philology  (February, 2014).
  3. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Robert Viscusi’s Astoria." Italian Americana  (February, 2014).
  4. Torgovnick, M. "Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and the Suppressed Debate about the Oceanic." solicited by Modernism/Modernity  (February, ?).
  5. Torgovnick, M. ""The Artist is Present"." Fictions of Art History  (2013).  [abs]
  6. Torgovnick, M. "Cultual Criticism."  Revised edition, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics  (2013).
  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 Scholars (2012).
  9. Torgovnick, M. "The Text is Present." Fictions of Art History  (2011).  [abs]
  10. Torgovnick, M. "Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America." Nanzan Review of American Studies XXXII (2011).
  11. Torgovnick, M. "Dante, Mourning, Meditation and Me." How We Write: The Power of Scholarly Form  (2010).
  12. Torgovnick, M. "Crossing Back: A Classic Journey." Crossing Back: A Classic Journey  (2010).  [abs]
  13. Torgovnick, M. "Rereading The Iliad in a time of war." PMLA 124:5 (October, 2009): 1838-1841. [doi]
  14. Torgovnick, M. "The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment."  Cover story The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (April, 2009).
  15. Torgovnick, M. "Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (2009).
  16. Torgovnick, M. "It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today."  Cover story The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (2009).
  17. Torgovnick, M. "Archive Fever." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (September, 2008).
  18. Torgovnick, M. "The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (May, 2008).
  19. Torgovnick, M. "Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History." The Chronicle of Higher Education Review  (February, 2008).
  20. Torgovnick, M. "Writing Together." Modernist Group Dynamics  (2008).
  21. Torgovnick, M. "On Victor Li’s "The Neo-Primitivist Turn"." Criticism 49:4 (Fall, 2007): 545-550.
  22. Torgovnick, M. "Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word." American Literature 78:3 (September, 2006): 629-631. [doi]
  23. Torgovnick, M. "Primitivism Today." II Primitivismo  (2006).
  24. Torgovnick, M. "Selling the House." Our Roots Are Deep with Passion  (2006): 234-44.
  25. Torgovnick, M. "Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word." American Literature  (2006).
  26. Torgovnick, M. "Animals and Aura."   (2005).
  27. Torgovnick, M. "My Secret Life with Earrings."   (2004).
  28. Torgovnick, M. "Cultural Criticism." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics  (2003).
  29. Torgovnick, M. "Interview with Duke Writing Group."  With Cathy N. Davidson, Alice Kaplan, and Jane Tompkins   (2003).
  30. Torgovnick, M. "A response to Shoshana Felman." Critical Inquiry 28:3 (January, 2002): 780-784. [doi]
  31. Torgovnick, M. "A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’." Critical Inquiry 27:2 (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"." American Literature  (2001).
  34. Torgovnick, M. "Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries." Encyclopedia of American Studies  (2001).
  35. Torgovnick, M. "Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited." Diaspora and Immigration SAQ 98:1/2 (1999): 239-246.
  36. Torgovnick, M. "Marianna Torgovnick (section)." The Writer’s Journal  (1997).
  37. Torgovnick, M. "A Writer and Others." Essays in Criticism 27 (1997): 174-79.
  38. Torgovnick, M. "On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst." Partisan Review 57 (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  (1996): 131-48.
  41. Torgovnick, M. "Interdisciplinarity." PMLA  (1996).
  42. Torgovnick, M. "A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals." Yale Review 84:4 (1996): 1-25.
  43. Torgovnick, M. "Tracking the men's movement." American Literary History 6:1 (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." New Formations  (1993).
  46. Torgovnick, M. "Sticks and Bones."  Reprinted in Postmodern Occasions, n.d Art Forum  (1993).
  47. TORGOVNICK, M. "THE POLITICS OF THE WE." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 91:1 (Winter, 1992): 43-63. [Gateway.cgi]
  48. TORGOVNICK, M. "SKIN AND BOLTS + PIERCING GENITALS." ARTFORUM 31:4 (1992): 64-65.
  49. TORGOVNICK, M. "INTRODUCTION + CULTURAL CRITICISM." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 91:1 (1992): 1-3.
  50. Torgovnick, M. "Stuffed Animals." Transition 54 (1991): 58-67.
  51. TORGOVNICK, M. "Edging Women out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers, and Social Change. Gaye Tuchman, Nina E. Fortin." Modern Philology 88:2 (November, 1990): 213-215. [doi]
  52. "On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst."  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 Partisan Review 57:3 (Summer, Summer 1990): 456-66.
  53. Torgovnick, M. "Experimental Critical Writing."  Reprinted in Profession 90, 25-28; and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-Fiction, 1998 and several other anthologies ADE Bulletin 96 (1990): 8-11.
  54. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Mexican Monuments." Art Forum  (October, 1989).
  55. Torgovnick, M. "Making Primitive Art High Art." Poetics Today 10:2 (Summer, 1989): 299-299. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  56. Torgovnick, M. "Review of W.J.T. Mitchell’s Iconology." Criticism  (1988).
  57. Torgovnick, M. "Did We Meet Your Expectations." Novel 21:2-3 (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." NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION 21:2-3 (1988): 345-359.
  59. TORGOVNICK, M. "DID WE MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS + REGARDING WHY THE NOVEL MATTERS." NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION 21:2-3 (1988): 341-344.
  60. Torgovnick, M. "Review of David Lubin’s Acts of Portrayal." American Literature  (1987).
  61. Torgovnick, M. "Closure 1986." Victorian Newsletter  (1987).
  62. Torgovnick, M. "The Godfather as the World’s Most Typical Novel." South Atlantic Quarterly 87:2 (Spring, 1987): 329-53.
  63. TORGOVNICK, M. "CLOSURE AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL, 1986." VICTORIAN NEWSLETTER :71 (1987): 4-6.
  64. TORGOVNICK, M. "ICONOLOGY - IMAGE, TEXT, IDEOLOGY - MITCHELL,WJT." CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS 29:4 (1987): 556-557.
  65. Torgovnick, M; Lubin, DM. "Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James.." American Literature 58:4 (December, 1986): 643-643. [doi]
  66. TORGOVNICK, M. "NABOKOV AND HIS SUCCESSORS - 'PALE FIRE' AS A FABLE FOR CRITICS IN THE 70S AND 80S." STYLE 20:1 (Spring, 1986): 22-41.
  67. Torgovnick, M. "Ut Pictura." Novel 18:1 (Winter, 1985).
  68. Torgovnick, M. "The Present and Future States of Novel Criticism, A Hopeful Overview." NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION 18:3 (Spring, 1985): 199-202. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  69. Torgovnick, M; Steiner, W; Harpham, GG. "Ut pictura...." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 18:1 (1984): 81-81. [doi]
  70. Torgovnick, M. "How to Treat an Adjunct." College Composition and Communication XXXIII:4 (December, 1982): 454-56.
  71. Torgovnick, M. "How to Handle an Adjunct." College Composition and Communication 33:4 (December, 1982): 454-454. [doi]
  72. Torgovnick, M. "Review of Spatial Form in Literature." South Atlantic Quarterly 81:4 (Fall, 1982): 475-76.
  73. TORGOVNICK, M. "SPATIAL FORM IN NARRATIVE - SMITTEN,JR, DAGHISTANY,A." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 81:4 (1982): 475-476.
  74. Torgovnick, M. "Closure and Shape of Fictions: The Example of Women in Love." The Study in Time IV  (1981): 147-58.
  75. Torgovnick, M. "Review-Essay on D.A. Miller’s Narrative and its Discontents: Problems of Closure and the Traditional Novel." Genre  (Fall, 1981): 415-18.
  76. TORGOVNICK, M. "NARRATIVE AND ITS DISCONTENTS - PROBLEMS OF CLOSURE IN THE TRADITIONAL NOVEL - MILLER,DA." GENRE 14:3 (1981): 415-418.
  77. Torgovnick, M. "Gesture and Meaning in The Golden Bowl." Twentieth-Century Literature  (Winter, 1980): 445-57.
  78. Torgovnick, M. "Pictorial Elements in 'Women in Love': The Uses of Insinuation and Visual Rhyme." Contemporary Literature 21:3 (Summer, 1980): 420-434. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  79. TORGOVNICK, M. "GESTURAL PATTERN AND MEANING IN THE 'GOLDEN BOWL'." TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE 26:4 (1980): 445-457.
  80. Torgovnick, M. "Teaching Freshman English: Observations of a Former Urban Adjunct Instructor." Improving College and University Teaching 27:4 (Fall, 1979): 147-52.
  81. TORGOVNICK, M. "James' Sense of an Ending: The Role Played in Its Development by the Popular Conventional Epilogue." Studies in the Novel 10:2 (Summer, 1978): 183-198. [Gateway.cgi]
  82. "A Writer and Others." Essays in Criticism 27:2 (Spring, Spring 1977): 174-79.
  83. TORGOVNICK, M. "JAMES,HENRY - LESSONS OF MASTER - POPULAR FICTION AND PERSONAL STYLE IN 19TH-CENTURY - VEEDER,W." ESSAYS IN CRITICISM 27:2 (1977): 174-179.

Short Stories

    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.
    6.  "Writing Cultural Criticism." . 1992.
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