UID:
almahu_9948236326702882
Format:
1 online resource (224 pages) :
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digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781847791757
Series Statement:
Contemporary British novelists
Content:
James Kelman is Scotland’s most influential contemporary prose artist. This is the first book-length study of his groundbreaking novels, and it analyses and contextualises 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. Richly historicised through diverse contexts such as Scottish socialism, public transport, emigration, ‘Booker Prize’ culture and Glasgow’s controversial ‘City of Culture’ status in 1990, Simon Kovesi offers readings of Kelman’s style, characterisation and linguistic innovations.This study resists the prevalent condemnations of Kelman as a miserable realist, and produces evidence that he is acutely aware of an unorthodox, politicised literary tradition which transgresses definitions of what literature can or should do. Kelman is cautious about the power relationship between the working-class worlds he represents in his fiction, and the latent preconceptions embedded in the language of academic and critical commentary. In response, 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.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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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.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Kövesi, Simon. James Kelman, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780719070969
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781847791757
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781847791757/9781847791757.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781847791757
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