Marianna Torgovnick

Journal Article New American Studies Journal · December 22, 2022 This essay counterpoints two existential threats in our lifetimes—nuclear apocalypse and climate catastrophe—comparing how they have been recorded in historical documents and how they have registered in the American imagination. It surveys non-fict ... Full text Cite

Crossing Back Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

Book · September 14, 2021 Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. ... Cite

Recipe for Memory

Other Los Angeles Review of Books · September 14, 2021 Cite

The Allure of Lost Cities

Journal Article Los Angeles Review of Books · July 1, 2020 Cite

America Dreams American Movies

Chapter · December 15, 2017 The text is organized into four units. The first covers basics including genres and terminology. ... Cite

Closure in the novel

Book · January 1, 2017 Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work reaches an appropriate conclusion. Originally published i ... Cite

The Novelist's Wife

Book · 2015 Featured Publication A fact-based re-imagining of the life of a famous man’s wife who was a woman with a racy and unforgettable story all her own. ... Cite

Fifty Shades Cliched

Other Public Books · June 5, 2013 Link to item Cite

9 Documentaries That You Need to See This Year

Other TEDBlog · April 10, 2013 Link to item Cite

Cultual Criticism

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"The Artist is Present"

Chapter · 2013 Featured Publication Performance Art, Marina Abramovic, and the art of provocation. ... Cite

The top 10 classic fears in literature

Other TEDTalks · 2012 Cite

Adventures in Digital Publishing

Chapter · 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Contemporary America

Journal Article Nanzan Review of American Studies · 2011 Cite

The Text is Present

Chapter · 2011 An exploration of the powers and limits of fiction making in art and art history, using "Marina Abramovic," a 2010 landmark exhibition of performance art at the Museum of Modern Art as test-case. ... Cite

Crossing Back: A Classic Journey

Chapter · 2010 Preface A study of headhunters in the Philippines includes a haunting story that I have never been able to forget. Anthropologist Renato Rosaldo was doing research among the Ilongot, a group among whom he and his wife had lived on and off for years. In Oct ... Cite

Dante, Mourning, Meditation and Me

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Rereading The Iliad in a time of war

Journal Article PMLA · October 1, 2009 Full text Cite

The Buoyancy of Depression Entertainment

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · April 2009 Cite

It’s Not Mickey Mouse: Animation Today

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · 2009 Cite

Letting Loose in the Great Depression: Film, Radio, and Leisure Time in the 1930s

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · 2009 Cite

Archive Fever

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · September 2008 Cite

The Lure of Urban Destruction: Targeting New York

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · May 2008 Cite

Sexy Things: Recent Novels that Embroider Artistic History

Journal Article The Chronicle of Higher Education Review · February 2008 Cite

Writing Together

Journal Article Modernist Group Dynamics · 2008 Cite

On Victor Li’s "The Neo-Primitivist Turn"

Journal Article Criticism · 2007 Cite

The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity

Journal Article CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS · 2007 Cite

Let’s re-examine pre-emptive war policy

Other The Herald Sun · October 2006 Cite

Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Journal Article American Literature · September 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

Journal Article American Literature · 2006 Cite

Selling the House

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Primitivism Today

Chapter · 2006 Cite

The War Complex: World War II in Our Time

Book · May 2005 An exploration of the cultural memory of World War II with attention to facts that have all but disappeared from contemporary understandings of war history in America. By probing cultural representations of four large topics - D-Day, Adolf Eichmann’s war c ... Cite

Animals and Aura

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My Secret Life with Earrings

Journal Article · 2004 Cite

Interview with Duke Writing Group

Journal Article · 2003 Cite

Cultural Criticism

Chapter · 2003 Cite

A Response to Shosana Felman’s ’Theatres of Justice’

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · 2002 Cite

A response to Shoshana Felman

Journal Article Critical Inquiry · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Memoir, Autobiography, and Diaries

Journal Article Encyclopedia of American Studies · 2001 Cite

On Michael North’s "Reading 1922"

Journal Article American Literature · 2001 Cite

Narrating Sexuality; D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow and Women in Love

Chapter · 2001 Cite

Mixed Ethnicity: Crossing Ocean Parkway Revisited

Journal Article Diaspora and Immigration SAQ · 1999 Cite

Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy

Book · 1997 Cite

On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst

Journal Article Partisan Review · 1997 Cite

A Writer and Others

Journal Article Essays in Criticism · 1997 Cite

Marianna Torgovnick (section)

Chapter · 1997 Cite

A Passion for the Primitive: Dian Fossey Among the Animals

Journal Article Yale Review · 1996 Cite

Interdisciplinarity

Journal Article PMLA · 1996 Cite

Discovering Jane Ellen Harrison

Chapter · 1996 Cite

So, What Did Your Mother Think?

Chapter · 1996 Cite

Tracking the men's movement

Journal Article American Literary History · March 1, 1994 A group of men sit around a fire. In the trees that surround them hang African masks used in initiation. Before the fire, moving around the circle as he speaks, is an older man who tells what it is like to be a man. He especially tells of his relationship ... Full text Cite