Simon Kovesi

James Kelman

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Produktbeschreibung

James Kelman is Scotland's most influential contemporary prose artist. This is the first book-length study of his groundbreaking novels. It analyses and contextualizes each in detail. It argues that while Kelman offers a coherent and consistent vision of the world, each novel should be read as a distinct literary response to particular aspects of contemporary working-class language and culture. This study resists the prevalent condemnations of Kelman as a miserable realist and produces evidence that he is acutely aware of an unorthodox, politicized literary tradition that transgresses definitions of what literature can or should do. This study is boldly self-critical and questions the validity and values of its own methods. Kelman is shown to be deftly humorous, assiduously ethical, philosophically alert, and politically necessary.

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Offers readings of Kelman's style, characterisation and linguistic innovations within the diverse contexts of Scottish socialism, public transport, emigration, 'Booker Prize' culture and Glasgow's controversial 'City of Culture' status in 1990

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070976
• ISBN-10: 071907097X
• Artikelnr.: 23146252

Autorenporträt

Simon Kövesi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Oxford Brookes University

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Series editor's foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1.
Introduction 2. The Busconductor Hines (1984) 3. A Chancer (1985) 4. A
Disaffection (1989) 5. How late it was, how late (1994) 6. Translated
Accounts (2001) and You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (2004)
Select bibliography Index