The Cult of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: An Appendix of a Culture or an Alternative Ossian?

Authors

  • Ema Jelínková

Keywords:

Scottish fiction, ambivalence, national myths, drug addiction in literature

Abstract

This article comments on the way Scottish national stereotypes in literature – ambivalence, “tartan myths” and the tradition of despair – are exposed and employed in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting.

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Walker, M. 1996. Scottish Literature Since 1707. London: Longman. Welsh, I. 1993. Trainspotting. London: Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd..

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Published

25-06-2021

How to Cite

Jelínková, E. (2021). The Cult of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: An Appendix of a Culture or an Alternative Ossian? . Philologia, 7(1), 145–150. Retrieved from https://philologia.org.rs/index.php/ph/article/view/233

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Nauka o književnosti/Literary Studies

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