From Trocchi to Trainspotting - Scottish Critical Theory Since 1960

Michael Gardiner

Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2233-7
$36.00

September, 2006
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2232-0
Edinburgh University Press
$130.00

This provocative book argues that Scottish writing since 1960 has developed in tandem with the ideas of such continental critical-theorists as Gilles Deleuze and Paul Virilio. Scottish writers are examined within a wide theoretical context and include Muriel Spark, Edwin Morgan, Ian Hamilton Finlay, James Kelman, Alexander Trocchi, Janice Galloway, Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Alan Riach, and Pat Kane., reviewing a previous edition or volume

About the Author

Michael Gardiner is assistant professor in the faculty of letters at Chiba University, Japan.

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