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UNINA9910785160703321 |
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Autore |
Schoene Berthold |
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Titolo |
The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-74993-5 |
9786612749933 |
0-7486-4287-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, Scottish |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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