Irvine WelshThis first full-length study of Welsh 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 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 on his motivations for writing. |
Contents
Irvine Welsh and the long dark night of late capitalism | 1 |
Trainspotting 1993 | 36 |
The Acid House 1994 | 79 |
Marabou Stork Nightmares 1995 | 101 |
Ecstasy Three Chemical Romances 1996 | 129 |
Filth 1998 | 151 |
Glue 2001 | 175 |
Porno 2002 | 200 |
plotting against power or scheming against the working class? | 220 |
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