Skagboys

Skagboys
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393088731

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Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.

Making Time

Making Time
Author: Carolin Gebauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110708191

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2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English Language Responding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrative fiction. Breaking with the tradition of conceptualizing the present tense purely as a deictic category denoting synchronicity between a narrative event and its presentation, the study redefines present-tense narration as a fully-fledged narrative strategy whose functional potential far exceeds temporal relations between story and discourse. The first part of the volume presents numerous analytical categories that systematically describe the formal, structural, functional, and syntactic dimensions of present-tense usage in narrative fiction. These categories are then deployed to investigate the uses and functions of present-tense narration in selected twenty-first century novels, including Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Ian McEwan’s Nutshell, and Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys. The seven case studies serve to illustrate the ubiquity of present-tense narration in contemporary fiction, ranging from the historical novel to the thriller, and to investigate the various ways in which the present tense contributes to narrative worldmaking.

Skagboys

Skagboys
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9782757857755

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Renton, Spud, Sick Boy et Begbie ont déjà tout essayé : speed, acide, tise. Sauf l'héroïne, ou skag. Au premier shoot succède l'addiction. Loin de s'en préoccuper, cette bande déjantée vit de petite délinquance, de virées dans les pubs, de concours loufoques et de plans alambiqués pour draguer des nanas. C'est le quotidien barré et cynique d'une génération anesthésiée, celle des années Thatcher.

The Literary Review

The Literary Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2012
Genre: Arts
ISBN:

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SKAGBOYS

SKAGBOYS
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Au Diable Vauvert
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2016-04-01T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Les mésaventures sombres et hilarantes des héros de Trainspotting, frappés en pleine jeunesse par la fracture sociale des années Thatcher.

Choose Life Choose Leith

Choose Life Choose Leith
Author: Tim Bell
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2024-04-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1804251542

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Much more than transgressional entertainment, Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting and its derivatives is a window into the social mayhem that was everyday life in one of the most deprived areas in 1980s Britain. Thatcherism. Greed. Poverty. Heroin. HIV. Disenfranchised youth. In the back garden of posh, prosperous Edinburgh, Leith had the lot. For 20 years, Bell has interpreted Trainspotting on the streets of Leith for locals, tourists, aficionados and academics. In this book, a critical analysis of Trainspotting – the book, the play, and the film – he splices well-researched erudition with street-level wisdom and lived-experience testimony to tell the story behind the story. This new edition refocuses Trainspotting as a creative chronicle of the early years of the ongoing and uniquely Scottish drug death culture.

English-Speaking Towns and Cities: Memoirs and Narratives

English-Speaking Towns and Cities: Memoirs and Narratives
Author: Glain Olivier
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2862727342

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This book relies on a multidisciplinary approach that allows the authors to bear witness to the realities and representations of various urban environments in the English-speaking world in complementary ways. They deal with the motifs of urban identity and expression from several methodological and theoretical perspectives (sociolinguistics, soundscapes, architecture, stylistics, literature). This book analyses the representations of and the changes in urban identity through different forms of linguistic and artistic expression associated with several English-speaking towns and cities. The protagonists are, in order of appearance, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Houghton-le-Spring, Kolkata, New York City, London, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Dublin and Edinburg. Cet ouvrage s’appuie sur une approche pluridisciplinaire qui permet de rendre compte des réalités et des représentations d’environnements urbains anglophones de manière complémentaire. Les auteurs abordent la question de l’identité et de l’expression urbaine selon des perspectives méthodologiques et théoriques diverses (sociolinguistique, environnement sonore, architecture, stylistique, littérature). L’ouvrage vise à rendre compte des représentations et des mutations identitaires des villes anglophones à travers des modes d’expression linguistiques et artistiques qui leur sont propres. Les protagonistes sont, par ordre d’apparition, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Houghton-le-Spring, Kolkata, New York, Londres, Sheffield, Aberdeen, Dublin et Édimbourg.

British Working-Class Fiction

British Working-Class Fiction
Author: Roberto del Valle Alcalá
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474273750

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British Fiction and the Struggle Against Work offers an account of British literary responses to work from the 1950s to the onset of the financial crisis of 2008/9. Roberto del Valle Alcalá argues that throughout this period, working-class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the social discipline imposed by capitalist work. As the latter becomes an increasingly pervasive and inescapable form of control and as its nature grows abstract, diffuse, and precarious, writing about it acquires a new antagonistic quality, producing new forms of subjective autonomy and new imaginaries of a possible life beyond its purview. By tracing a genealogy of working-class authors and texts that in various ways defined themselves against the social discipline imposed by post-war capitalism, this book analyses the strategies adopted by workers in their attempts to identify and combat the source of their oppression. Drawing on the work of a wide range of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri, Alcalá offers a systematic and innovative account of British literary treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna.

The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950

The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950
Author: Luke Lewin Davies
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030734323

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Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century. After arguing that the emergence of the figure of the tramp reflects the evolution of capitalism and disciplinary society in this period, The Tramp in British Literature uncovers a neglected body of "tramp literature" written by memoir and fiction writers, many of whom were themselves homeless. In analysing these works, it presents select texts as a unique and ignored contribution to a wider radical discourse defined by its opposition to a wider societal preoccupation with the need to be productive.

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space
Author: K. Duff
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137429356

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Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike.