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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 on his motivations for writing. Clearly written and accessible, this will be a key resource for students and academics alike. Choose 'Irvine Welsh'!
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Aaron Kelly is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English at the University of Edinburgh
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How Not To Learn To Speak Welsh.
10 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a truly terrible book. The author, a middle class academic teaching at Edinburgh University in Scotland, clearly knows nothing of Scottish working class culture, which is the societal level which spawned Welsh's abrasive wordwork. Kelly basically makes up (seriously) most of this book, reading far-too-deep-and-tortuously-over-articulated meanings into short stories and novels that simply do not exist, supplemented by a selection of over-analytical, under-understanding quotes from other deluded examiners of Welsh's stuff.
When an author doesn't know that the use of the word 'us' in colloquial Scottish is simply a different way of saying 'me' and instead attributes this word in a sentence to a character talking about a 'multiplicity of personalities'...EVERYTHING he says is rendered suspect and void. If you want a critical analysis of Welsh that resonates with reason and reality, you will have to wait for another one, this being the first, because this man just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. And he teaches this garbage to students too. Glad I'm not a student in his literature class.
Check out www.laurahird.com/newreview/irvinewelsh.html for a more in-depth review of this book.
When an author doesn't know that the use of the word 'us' in colloquial Scottish is simply a different way of saying 'me' and instead attributes this word in a sentence to a character talking about a 'multiplicity of personalities'...EVERYTHING he says is rendered suspect and void. If you want a critical analysis of Welsh that resonates with reason and reality, you will have to wait for another one, this being the first, because this man just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. And he teaches this garbage to students too. Glad I'm not a student in his literature class.
Check out www.laurahird.com/newreview/irvinewelsh.html for a more in-depth review of this book.
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