The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh / / Berthold Schoene.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Schoene, Berthold,
• MitwirkendeR: Ashley, Katherine,; Borthwick, David,; Clandfield, Peter,; Ferrebe, Alice,; Jones, Carole,; Lloyd, Christian,; McGuire, Matt,; Miller, Gavin,; Petrie, Duncan,; Schoene, Berthold,; Scullion, Adrienne,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748642878; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748642878
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Berthold Schoene.

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. Though Welsh's career is very much an ongoing phenomenon, his influence on contemporary Scottish literary history is already quite indisputable and enduring.