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<p>Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on the marginalized, disgruntled and boisterous youths of Edinburgh). Examining some of the writer’s most recent and lesser-known works, my essay will argue that a series of archaic mythical patterns, symbols and cosmological coordinates can be shown to guide a large number of the axioms that Welsh employs to refine his own vision of a modern, emergent mythos.</p>
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Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped spearhead a personal brand of anti-Thatcherite counterculture (with an especially heavy focus on the marginalized, disgruntled and boisterous youths of Edinburgh). Examining some of the writer’s most recent and lesser-known works, my essay will argue that a series of archaic mythical patterns, symbols and cosmological coordinates can be shown to guide a large number of the axioms that Welsh employs to refine his own vision of a modern, emergent mythos.

Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos

American, British and Canadian Studies

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Scottish author Irvine Welsh has crafted an internally cohesive cosmology, grounded in mapping a somewhat loosely defined “chemical generation” that helped...

Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos

Article Category: Artikel

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 67 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0018

Keywords
Irvine Welsh, comparative mythology, emergent mythology, archaic cosmology, altered states of consciousness, ritual initiation, chemical generation

© 2021 ANDREI-CĂLIN ZAMFIRESCU, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Violence, Innocence and Redemption in Irvine Welsh’s Chemical Mythos

Article Category: Artikel

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 67 - 84

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2021-0018

KeywordsIrvine Welsh, comparative mythology, emergent mythology, archaic cosmology, altered states of consciousness, ritual initiation, chemical generation

© 2021 ANDREI-CĂLIN ZAMFIRESCU, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Irvine Welsh, comparative mythology, emergent mythology, archaic cosmology, altered states of consciousness, ritual initiation, chemical generation