02733nam 22005173u 450 991081482520332120230725024918.01-282-74993-597866127499330-7486-4287-010.1515/9780748642878(CKB)2670000000044208(EBL)581394(OCoLC)664801031(MiAaPQ)EBC581394(DE-B1597)616600(DE-B1597)9780748642878(EXLCZ)99267000000004420820130418d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh[electronic resource]Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press20101 online resource (161 p.)Edinburgh Companions to Scottish LiteratureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-3918-7 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; IndexThe 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 enduringEdinburgh Companions to Scottish LiteratureAuthors, ScottishLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisacshAuthors, Scottish.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.823.914Schoene Berthold1180394AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910814825203321The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh3985310UNINA