LEADER 02688nam 2200529Ia 450 001 9910814825203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-74993-5 010 $a9786612749933 010 $a0-7486-4287-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748642878 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044208 035 $a(EBL)581394 035 $a(OCoLC)664801031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581394 035 $a(DE-B1597)616600 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748642878 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044208 100 $a20100201d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Edinburgh companion to Irvine Welsh /$fedited by Berthold Schoene 205 $a1st ed. 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 $a0-7486-3918-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 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. 517 3 $aIrvine Welsh 606 $aAuthors, Scottish 615 0$aAuthors, Scottish. 676 $a823.914 701 $aSchoene-Harwood$b Berthold$01655508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814825203321 996 $aThe Edinburgh companion to Irvine Welsh$94203695 997 $aUNINA