LEADER 02325nam 22004093u 450 001 9910460041903321 005 20210114031344.0 010 $a1-282-74993-5 010 $a9786612749933 010 $a0-7486-4287-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044208 035 $a(EBL)581394 035 $a(OCoLC)664801031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044208 100 $a20130418d2010|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh$b[electronic resource] 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 225 1 $aEdinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-3918-7 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThe subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and radically remoulded the country's self-image from dreamy romantic hinterland to agitated metropolitan hotbed. Although Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already indisputable and enduring 410 0$aEdinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a823.914 700 $aSchoene$b Berthold$0932753 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460041903321 996 $aThe Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh$92099209 997 $aUNINA