Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface vii
4. Brief Biography of James Kelman viii
5. Introduction 1
6. I Literary Forms
7. CHAPTER ONE Early Kelman 9
8. CHAPTER TWO How late it was, how late and Literary Value 20
9. CHAPTER THREE Kelman’s Later Novels 31
10. CHAPTER FOUR Kelman and the Short Story 42
11. CHAPTER FIVE Kelman’s Critical and Polemical Writing 53
12. CHAPTER SIX Kelman’s Drama 65
13. II Critical Contexts
14. CHAPTER SEVEN Kelman’s Glasgow Sentence 75
15. CHAPTER EIGHT Kelman’s Art- Speech 86
16. CHAPTER NINE Kelman and World English 99
17. CHAPTER TEN Kelman and Masculinity 111
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN Kelman and the Existentialists 121
19. Endnotes 131
20. Further Reading 150
21. Notes on Contributors 156
22. Index 159