A CONDITION OF PERMANENT MOURNING: RESONANCES OF JOYCE IN ALICE MCDERMOTT’S AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES AND CHARMING BILLY
A CONDITION OF PERMANENT MOURNING: RESONANCES OF JOYCE IN ALICE MCDERMOTT’S AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES AND CHARMING BILLY
Author(s): Claire Crabtree SinnettSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: Catholicism; Irish; Immigrants; Irish-American; Alice McDermott
Summary/Abstract: Alice McDermott’s novels of the Irish American immigrant experience in New York, Of Wakes and Weddings and Charming Billy, demonstrate Joyce’s influence in terms of point of view, other fictional strategies, and treatments of time and loss. Focusing on characters marked by Joyceian “paralysis,” McDermott explores lives thwarted by a complex of religious constraints and cultural assumptions similar to those at work in Joyce’s Dublin.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 35-43
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
