The Edinburgh companion to Irvine Welsh:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2010
Series:Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-142) and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 148 pages)
ISBN:0748642870
9780748642878

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