Understanding Alice McDermott

By tracing the shifting themes and motifs through eight novels, uncollected short stories, and essays published during McDermott's fruitful career, Understanding Alice McDermott provides a window into the decades-long development of a contemporary master.

A propos de l'auteur

Margaret Hallissy is a professor of English at Long Island University Post in Brookville, New York. She is the author of Understanding Contemporary Irish Fiction and Drama; Reading Irish-American Fiction: The Hyphenated Self; A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Clean Maids, True Wives, Steadfast Widows: Chaucer's Women and Medieval Codes of Conduct; and Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature.

Résumé

An Irish American Catholic born and raised in New York, Alice McDermott uses multiple identities and a distinctive, nonchronological narrative style to create an unmistakable trademark. Understanding Alice McDermott begins with a brief biography and transitions into a linear inquiry of McDermott's published works.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Margaret Hallissy
• Edition: The University of South Carolina Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781643360270
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-027-0
• Pages: 148
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Poids: 340 g
• Thèmes: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée