Journal ArticleNew 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threats in our lifetimes—nuclear apocalypse and climate catastrophe—comparing how they have been recorded in historical documents and how they have registered in the American imagination.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 ...
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Book · September 14, 2021
Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. ...
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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 ...
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Book · 2015
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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. ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican 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 ...
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