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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
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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   $aThe subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition in post-devolution Scottish writing. The unprecedented worldwide success of Trainspotting, magnified by Danny Boyle's iconic film adaptation, revolutionised Scottish culture and radically remoulded the country's self-image from dreamy romantic hinterland to agitated metropolitan hotbed. Although Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already indisputable and enduring
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615  0$aAuthors, Scottish.
615  7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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