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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Margaret Hallissy
• Editore: The University of South Carolina Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781643360270
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-027-0
• Pagine: 148
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 340 g
• Serie: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata