{"product_id":"alice-mcdermotts-fiction-9781433144165","title":"Alice McDermotts Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Alice McDermott's Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors explore the emotional pain, the uncertainty about identity, and the faulty relationships within families and communities of characters in the writer's work. In the Foreword, Monica McGoldrick identifies how complications such characters as in McDermott's fiction experience often relate to reverberations of the pain and shame of their Irish ancestors that have been silenced over time. The aftermath of lies, self-deception, and trauma are analyzed, and McDermott's themes, stylistics, and aesthetics are identified: familial relationships in second- and third-generation Irish-American families; trauma that characters experience when living their lives of repressed feelings or conflicted self-identityor forgotten cultural identity; silence in families and inauthentic relationships between mothers and daughters; propensity for characters to lie to show care and concern for another and to cling to mythical images of a patriarchal hero; allu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonica McGoldrick: Foreword – Acknowledgments – Gail Shanley Corso: Alice McDermott: A Chronology of the Writer’s Life – Gail Shanley Corso: Introduction: \"What is not said than what is said?\": Begorrah! – Segment One: Multidisciplinary Interpretations of Pretense and Lies in Alice McDermott’s Fiction – Colleen McDonough: \"Not what it seemed\": Pretense and Identity in \u003cem\u003eA Bigamist’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e – Martin LoMonaco – Understanding the Rhetoric of the Lie in Alice McDermott’s \u003cem\u003eCharming Billy\u003c\/em\u003e: The Context of the Redemption Cycle and Irish-American Culture – Suzanne Mayer: The Narrator as Angelus Novus: Collective Memory, Truth, and Lies in \u003cem\u003eCharming Billy\u003c\/em\u003e – Segment Two: Dialogue and Silence as Forms of Communication in Alice McDermott’s Fiction – Gail Shanley Corso: Go Ask Alice: Dialogue With Alice McDermott on May 10, 2011, at Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, Baltimore, Maryland – Edward Hagan: Narration as Experience of Simultaneity in Alice McDermott’s \u003cem\u003eSomeone\u003c\/em\u003e – Gail Shanley Corso: The Cry of the Banshee: The Keen of Pain and Loss in \"I Am Awake\" – Gail Shanley Corso\/Colleen McDonough: Lois as Separate and Silent: Liberation From and Ambivalence to the Categorical Imperative in Alice McDermott’s \"Robert of the Desert\" – Segment Three: Memory, Loss, and Trauma in Alice McDermott’s Fiction – Suzanne Mayer: Celibate Bride, Shrewish Sage, and Fey Cousins: Intergenerational Trauma Among the Women of McDermott’s Novels, \u003cem\u003eCharmin Billy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChild of My Heart\u003c\/em\u003e – Claudia Marie Kovach: Love and Grief: Recollection, Reiteration, and Replication in Alice McDermott’s \u003cem\u003eThat Night\u003c\/em\u003e – Appendix – Alice McDermott: Appendix A: \"I Am Awake\" – Alice McDermott: Appendix B: \"Robert of the Desert\" – Contributors – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039617515863,"sku":"9781433144165","price":73.12,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433144165.jpg?v=1750944277","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alice-mcdermotts-fiction-9781433144165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}