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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.

Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) (2017)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2017). Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981). Studies in Scottish literature, 43(2), Article 9

Discusses the healthy overlap in the recent BBC Scotland poll on Scotland's Favourite Novel between popular appeal and critical recognition; judges Gray's Lanark as "Scotland's greatest modern novel," which "deserves to be much better known internati... Read More about Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981).

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.

Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.

"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’s Impossible Community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

In search of community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound, or obligated together), is thought to be more philologically accurate, whi... Read More about In search of community.

The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950) (2015)
Book Chapter
Dymock, E., & Lyall, S. (2015). The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950). In C. Sassi (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Poetry (74-82). Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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.

The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2015)
Book
Lyall, S. (Ed.). (2015). The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This International Companion pr... Read More about The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction (2015)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2015). The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction. In S. Lyall (Ed.), The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (119-132). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

No abstract available.

The Kailyard's Ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction (2014)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2014). The Kailyard's Ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction. In I. Brown, & J. Berton (Eds.), Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture: Scottish Identities, History and Contemporary Literature (82-96). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

No abstract available.