The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

ISBN-13: 9780748639182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str.

Berthold Schoene

Opis

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. Though Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already quite indisputable and enduring.

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; A Brief Biography; Introduction, Berthold Schoene; 1. Welsh and Tradition, Alice Ferrebe; 2. Welsh's Novels, Matt McGuire; 3. Welsh's Shorter Fiction , David Borthwick; 4. Trainspotting, the Film, Duncan Petrie; 5. Welsh and Gender, Carole Jones; 6. Welsh, Drugs and Subculture, Berthold Schoene; 7. Welsh and the Theatre, Adrienne Scullion; 8. Welsh and Identity Politics, Gavin Miller; 9. Welsh and Edinburgh, Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd; 10. Welsh in Translation, Katherine Ashley; Notes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.