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America Dreams American Movies: Film, Culture, and the Popular Imagination offers undergraduates in diverse areas of study an overview of how American cinema reflects the history of the United States…
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Marianna Torgovnick
Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts–in part because major novelists like James, Lawrence, and Woolf did so, and did…
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…
In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and…
Linking literature, art, psychology and cultural studies, this work investigates Westerners’ attraction to primitive cultures. Torgovnick explores the stories of Jung, Dinesen, O'Keefe and Lawrence and the ways they use…
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Showing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight, this book moves from war films…
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Growing up an Italian American in New York, Marianna De Marco associated moving up with Ocean Parkway, a street that divides the working-class Italian neighbourhood from the middle-class Jewish neighbourhood…
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick’s unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic.
Out of the core of experience, these essays began as obsessions. Whether founded in some strongly lived moment, deeply held conviction, long-term interest, or persistent and unanswered question, these essays…
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itself
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the…
