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McCarthy, Desmond Fergus was born on October 18, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Desmond Christopher and Agnes McCarthy.
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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction
(The prevalence of alternative families in contemporary Am...)
The prevalence of alternative families in contemporary American fiction is significant given the concern and confusion precipitated by the decline in traditional nuclear families in recent decades. John Irving's The World According to Garp, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime contain compelling utopian depictions of alternative families that are more egalitarian than traditional nuclear families. John Updike's Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux are interesting counterpoints to the optimistic novels of Irving, Walker, and Doctorow. Although Updike depicts the traditional nuclear family as the site of considerable ennui and unhappiness, attempts to flee or reconstruct the family in his novels are staggeringly destructive.
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Desmond Fergus McCarthy
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Bachelor, Framingham State College, 1981. Master of Arts, Brandeis University, 1984. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1992.
Career
Lecturer Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1987-1988. Instructor Simmons College, Boston, 1989-1991, Northeastern University, Boston, 1990. Assistant professor English Framingham (Massachusetts) State College, 1991-1999, associate professor English, since 1999.
Adviser The Gatepost, Framingham, since 1992.
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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction
(The prevalence of alternative families in contemporary Am...)
- Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction by Desmond F. McCarthy, McCarthy, Desmond F. (1998) Paperback
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Reconstructing the Family in Contemporary American Fiction
