The Edinburgh companion to Irvine Welsh / edited by Berthold Schoene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schoene-Harwood, Berthold.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Scottish.

Welsh, Irvine--Criticism and interpretation.

Welsh, Irvine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Irvine Welsh

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Summary:

The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and radically remoulded the country's self-image from dreamy romantic hinterland to agitated metropolitan hotbed. Although Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already indisputable and enduring

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Irvine Welsh; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Welsh and Tradition; CHAPTER TWO Welsh's Novels; CHAPTER THREE Welsh's Shorter Fiction; CHAPTER FOUR Trainspotting, the Film; CHAPTER FIVE Welsh and Gender; CHAPTER SIX Welsh, Drugs and Subculture; CHAPTER SEVEN Welsh and the Theatre; CHAPTER EIGHT Welsh and Identity Politics; CHAPTER NINE Welsh and Edinburgh; CHAPTER TEN Welsh in Translation; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-74993-5

9786612749933

0-7486-4287-0

OCLC:

664801031