Kieron Smith Boy
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Kieron Smith Boy
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Author : James Kelman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Kieron Smith Boy written by James Kelman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of the city, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life. Warm, funny, with searing insight and astonishing empathy, in Kieron Smith, James Kelman has created an unforgettable boy.
If It Is Your Life
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Author : James Kelman
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2010-04-01
If It Is Your Life written by James Kelman and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives on the edge, lives almost lost, lives held in the balance, James Kelman writes about the things that touch us all. With honesty, toughness and humour, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender and age - identity in all its forms - with a sympathetic pen and a sharp and observant eye. No other British writer today penetrates so deeply into the hearts, minds and desperation of his characters, and this collection is as uncompromising, and as beautiful, as anything he has ever written.
Mo Said She Was Quirky
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Author : James Kelman
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Mo Said She Was Quirky written by James Kelman and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Fiction categories.
James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these are the ordinary parts of the everyday that become extraordinary when you think of them as Helen does, each waking hour. Mo Said She Was Quirky begins on Helen’s way home from work, with the strangest of moments when a skinny, down-at-heel man crosses the road in front of her and appears to be her lost brother. What follows is an inspired and absorbing story of twenty-four hours in the life of a young woman.
Community In Modern Scottish Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-18
Community In Modern Scottish Literature written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives.
Edinburgh Companion To James Kelman
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Author : Scott Hames
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Edinburgh Companion To James Kelman written by Scott Hames and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely caricatured. His art declares war on stereotypes, but is saddled with plenty of its own. This book attempts to disentangle Kelman's writing from his reputation, clarifying his literary influences and illuminating his political commitments. It is the first book to cover the full range and depth of Kelman's work, explaining his position within genres such as the short story and the polemical essay, and tracing his interest in anti-colonial politics and existential thought. Essays by leading experts combine lucid accounts of the heated debates surrounding Kelman's writing, with a sharp focus on the effects and innovations of that writing itself. Kelman's own reception by reviewers and journalists is examined as a shaping factor in the development of his career. Chapters situate Kelman's work in critical contexts ranging from masculinity to vernacular language, cover influences from Chomsky to Kafka, and pursue the implications of Kelman's rhetoric from Glasgow localism to 'World English'.
All We Have Is The Story
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Author : James Kelman
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23
All We Have Is The Story written by James Kelman and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Literary Collections categories.
Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist. From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime—both published on a slightly larger American press), All We Have Is the Story chronicles the life and work—to date—of “Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.” (The Times) Drawing deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, philosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the complexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice and grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and empathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends with the story. “One of the things the establishment always does is isolate voices of dissent and make them specific—unique if possible. It's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose and him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there, and that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean—suddenly there's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something dangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate to and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a movement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you can contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say ‘You're on your own, you're a phenomenon.’ I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a part of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while.” —James Kelman from a 1993 interview
Combined And Uneven Development
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Author : Sharae Deckard
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-25
Combined And Uneven Development written by Sharae Deckard and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pioneering study offering a ‘new comparatism’ — a new world-systems’ approach to the ‘world’ in ‘world literature’.
Scottish Literature And Postcolonial Literature
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Author : Michael Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-13
Scottish Literature And Postcolonial Literature written by Michael Gardiner and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studies
The Good Times
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Author : James Kelman
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 1998
The Good Times written by James Kelman and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
From "one of the new, true masters of millennial English" (Russell Banks), James Kelman's first new work since his Booker Prize-winning novel, How late it was, how late.
Prizing Scottish Literature
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Author : Stevie Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Prizing Scottish Literature written by Stevie Marsden and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This cultural history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. It is one piece of the wider cultural award puzzle and illustrates how, far from being parochial or niche, lesser-known awards, whose histories may be yet untold, play their own role in the circulation of cultural value through the consecration of literary value. The study of the Society’s Book of the Year and First Book of the Year Awards not only highlights how important connections between literary awards and national culture and identity are within prize culture and how literary awards, and their founding institutions, can be products of the socio-political and cultural milieu in which they form, but this study also illustrates how existing literary award scholarship has only begun to scratch the surface of the complexities of the phenomenon. This book promotes a new approach to considering literary prizes, proposing that the concept of the literary awards hierarchy can contribute to emerging and developing discourses pertaining to literary, and indeed cultural, prizes more broadly.