Jack Yeats
Subtitle: Amongst Friends (TRIARC Research Studies in Irish Art Series)
Publisher: Four Courts Pr Ltd; Four Courts Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781846820212
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Ireland; Europe - Ireland; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); History; History: World
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. Kelly gives 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.