Product Description: This study argues that James Kelman’s work should not be construed as a resigned capitulation to capitalist domination or to the fracture of a once unified working-class collective purpose. Politics are to be found not only in the content but also the form of Kelman’s work...read more

Product Description: This 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...read more

Product Description: The Cities of Belfast is an interdisciplinary project that considers the radical possibilities that culture offers a city so often said to be trapped in one specific past.

Product Description: The essays in this collection introduce new voices on a wide array of literary and cultural topics. Contents include: A Celtic Resurrection: Perspectives on Yeats' Generation in the Fin de Siecle; In Memoriam James Joyce: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Tradition of Scottish Multilingualism; and Great Hatred, Little Room: The Writer, the University and the Small Magazine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)