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Description for Irvine Welsh
Paperback. This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 328.
Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'. A detailed chronological survey also considers the appropriateness of cultural, postmodern and postcolonial theories to Welsh's incendiary fiction. Kelly gives a fascinating insight into the writer's formal and political ambitions, placing him in the context of the 'brat pack' which exploded onto the Scottish literary scene in the 1990s. He explores the social, class and political conditioning of Welsh's early life, and its impact ... Read more
Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'. A detailed chronological survey also considers the appropriateness of cultural, postmodern and postcolonial theories to Welsh's incendiary fiction. Kelly gives a fascinating insight into the writer's formal and political ambitions, placing him in the context of the 'brat pack' which exploded onto the Scottish literary scene in the 1990s. He explores the social, class and political conditioning of Welsh's early life, and its impact ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Contemporary British Novelists
Condition
New
Weight
328g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719066511
SKU
V9780719066511
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Ref
99-15
About Aaron Kelly
Aaron Kelly is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English at the University of Edinburgh -- .
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