Essays about: "Trainspotting"

Found 4 essays containing the word Trainspotting.

  1. 1. Actants and Networks in 'Skagboys' – Thatcher, Crime and Mundane Artifacts as Mediators

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Thomas Pedersen; [2020]
    Keywords : Skagboys; ANT; Actor-Network Theory; Thatcher; Crime; Heroin; Irvine Welsh; Bruno Latour; Mediator; Trainspotting; Literature; Scotland; Edinburgh; Agency; Detection; Objects in literature;

    Abstract : While Skagboys portrays the descent into heroin addiction of young, working class Scots during the Thatcher era, shifting the analysis from a strictly human perspective to one focusing on the agency of objects opens up the novel to new readings wherein morality emerges through nonhuman actors. Welsh’s work has traditionally been hailed as Scottish working-class realism that portrays its characters unideologically, to the point that the novels, through the characters, appear without morality. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Nae friends in this game. Jist associates” : On the Presentation of Alienation in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Johan Skalstad; [2020]
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  4. 3. “THE QUEEN’S FUCKIN ENGLISH, KEN?” An analysis of the language of Trainspotting

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Samuel Grip; [2018-06-13]
    Keywords : engelska; Trainspotting; Irvine Welsh; corpus stylistics; code switching; Standard English; Scots;

    Abstract : The novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh is a work that has been acknowledged and appreciated for its use of non-standard language since its publication. This essay seeks to find out if this non-standard language is simply Scottish English, or if it is Scots, a language different from English that is sometimes regarded as a dialect of the same. READ MORE

  5. 4. Contradiction and Resolution in Trainspotting : An Analysis of Irvine Welsh’s Novel (1993) and its Adaptation by Danny Boyle (1996)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jonas Thoreson; [2017]
    Keywords : heroin; antagonism;

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