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  • The War Complex: World War II in Our Time

    The War Complex: World War II in Our Time

    by Marianna Torgovnick

    The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2005
  • Primitive Passions

    Primitive Passions

    by Marianna Torgovnick

    Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body in a vari... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1996
  • Fictions of Art History

    Fictions of Art History

    by Joanna Scott • Alexander Nemerov • Marianna Torgovnick • Cole Swensen • Marina Warner • Caroline Vout • Michael Hatt • Paul Barolsky • Gloria Kury • Maria H. Loh • Ralph Lieberman • Mark Ledbury • Thomas Crow

    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians' viewing practices and modes of writing. How, ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1993
  • Crossing Ocean Parkway

    Crossing Ocean Parkway

    by Marianna D. Torgovnick

    Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television--like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family--but in Brooklyn she n... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1994
  • Crossing Ocean Parkway: With a New Afterword

    Crossing Ocean Parkway: With a New Afterword

    by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

    Growing up an Italian-American in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York city, Marianna De Marco longed for college, culture, and upward mobility. Her daydreams circled around WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) heroes on television—like Robin Hood and the Cartwright family—but in Brooklyn she ne... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1996
  • Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

    Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

    by 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 itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close pr... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2021
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