Recent British Fiction: Session Three

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Recent British Fiction Session Three

• Irvine Welsh and Niall Griffiths

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Agenda

• Trainspotting
• The vernacular
• Irvine Welsh
• Niall Griffiths

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Film 1996
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Book 1993
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Trainspotting

• The use of language in the film
• the conclusion of the toilet scene
• Coming off junk Renton and Sick Boy shooting at
  pitbull skinhead couple
• Spud on speed job interview
• Begbie telling a story in the pub

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The vernacular

• Vernacular vs scholarly and liturgical language
  (Latin)
• Dialect, sociolects, slang, colloquial,
  non-formal vs standard language
• Ordinary and literary language
• Romanticism and the language of poetry as the
  language of men (eg., Wordsworth, Burns)

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Irvine Welsh homepage

• language

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Irvine Welsh, A Fault on the Line

• Summarise the story
• How is the story told?
• Who tells? To whom?
• Whats the point of the narrators story?
• Whats Welsh point? How is it communicated?
• Whats the meaning of the title?
• Whats the relationship between title and text?

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Niall Griffiths

• Kelly and Victor
• Wreckage
• Stump