All Outputs (29)

"The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, June). "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry. Presented at Hugh MacDiarmid, 1923−2023: Visions and Revisions, University of Western Brittany, Brest

This talk examines a range of Hugh MacDiarmid’s religious poetry. ‘Religious’ is defined here in the very broadest sense as poems that deal with questions of meaning from a wide spiritual or metaphysical perspective, rather than solely from the narro... Read More about "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry.

"Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, April). "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry. Presented at The British Society for Literature and Science Eighteenth Annual Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Best known as a modernist poet in Scots, Hugh MacDiarmid’s later poetry moved away from its earlier lyricism to become a ‘poetry of facts’ written in terminological English. His appropriation of scientific sources was central to this. This paper look... Read More about "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry.

Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, September). Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde

This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner in which religious and spiritual beliefs and ideas were utilised by key Iris... Read More about Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland.

‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, August). ‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance. Paper presented at MacDiarmid at 100, Online

The first number of The Scottish Chapbook was published in August 1922 and the journal ran until November/December 1923. The most important of MacDiarmid’s several journal projects, it is significant in several ways. Edited by C. M. Grieve, the first... Read More about ‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance.

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, June). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Paper presented at The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, March). Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance. Paper presented at 'The Scottish Revival and the Canon', Seminar 3 of The Scottish Revival Network, Online

Scottish Modernism as Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, January). Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]

"And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, October). "And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Paper presented at A Proletarian Classics?, University of St Andrews [Online]

The Future of Scottish Women's Writing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, June). The Future of Scottish Women's Writing. Presented at Unforgettable, Unforgotten? Continuing the Recovery of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1880−1940, University of Edinburgh [Online]

The Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, March). The Scottish Revival Network. Paper presented at The Future of Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle, University of Glasgow [Online]

Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2019, June). Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference, Kings College, London

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2019, May). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Presented at Modernist Legacies and Futures: Modernist Studies Ireland inaugural conference, NUI Galway, Ireland

No abstract available.

'"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2018, March). '"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River'. Paper presented at Scottish Literature and World War One Symposium, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

No abstract available.

Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2018, March). Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism. Presented at 'We Moderns': Current Work in Modernist Studies. The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland

No abstract available.

Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2017, December). Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival. Paper presented at European Revivals Conference V - Cultural Mythologies around 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

This paper will argue that the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century was first-and-foremost a Symbolist movement. Focusing on the writing, thought and actions of, in particular, W. B. Yeats, George Russell (Ӕ), and Patrick Pea... Read More about Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival.

"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2016, August). "Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse. Paper presented at ESSE 2016, National University of Ireland, Galway

This paper examines the work of two of the main protagonists behind the cultural and political revival of Ireland in the early twentieth century, W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse, looking particularly at some of the religious and spiritual ideas and em... Read More about "Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse.

Hugh MacDiarmid and Prejudice: Scotland, Creativity, and the Independence Debate (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2016, April). Hugh MacDiarmid and Prejudice: Scotland, Creativity, and the Independence Debate. Presented at Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs: Cultural Stereotypes in Literature and Film, University of Jena, Germany

No abstract available.

Mystical Nationalists: W. B. Yeats, Fernando Pessoa and Hugh MacDiarmid (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2016, March). Mystical Nationalists: W. B. Yeats, Fernando Pessoa and Hugh MacDiarmid. Presented at University of Edinburgh Research Symposium, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

No abstract available.

"The Catfish in the Aquarium": Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2015, November). "The Catfish in the Aquarium": Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics. Presented at The Open History Society lecture, Edinburgh, Scotland

No abstract available.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2015, October). Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song. Presented at Association for Scottish Literary Studies Schools Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland

No abstract available.