Alice McDermott's Fiction

Monica 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 A Bigamist's Daughter - Martin LoMonaco - Understanding the Rhetoric of the Lie in Alice McDermott's Charming Billy: The Context of the Redemption Cycle and Irish-American Culture - Suzanne Mayer: The Narrator as Angelus Novus: Collective Memory, Truth, and Lies in Charming Billy - 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 Someone - 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, Charmin Billy and Child of My Heart - Claudia Marie Kovach: Love and Grief: Recollection, Reiteration, and Replication in Alice McDermott's That Night - Appendix - Alice McDermott: Appendix A: "I Am Awake" - Alice McDermott: Appendix B: "Robert of the Desert" - Contributors - Index.

Gail Shanley Corso, Professor of English at Neumann University, completed her undergraduate degree in English at Brooklyn College and her master's degree in English from SUNY Albany. She received her doctorate in English with a specialty in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University in 1991. A member of the editorial advisory board of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Corso has collaborated with teams of manuscript reviewers since 2001. Her first collection of poems, Tendered to Us in Love, was published in 2015. Her articles have been published in Studies in Arts and Humanities, Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, The International Journal of Literary Humanities, The International Journal of Learning, and ERIC.