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Studies in Scottish Literature - Special Issue: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100: Essays on the anniversary of his first publication (2024)
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(2024). Studies in Scottish Literature - Special Issue: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100: Essays on the anniversary of his first publication

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Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2024, July). Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance. Paper presented at The World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham, England

This paper suggest that Lewis Spence’s work – or some of it: specifically, some of his poetry in Scots – evokes the sense of 'The Weird' as defined by Mark Fisher; that is, as Fisher writes in his Introduction to The Weird and the Eerie (2016): ‘the... Read More about Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance.

Encyclopaedia entry: Marion Angus (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Marion Angus

Encyclopaedia entry: Christine Orr (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Christine Orr

Encyclopaedia entry: Lewis Spence (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Lewis Spence

Encyclopaedia entry: William Soutar (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: William Soutar

Encyclopaedia entry: J. B. Salmond (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: J. B. Salmond

Encyclopaedia entry: William Power (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: William Power

Encyclopaedia entry: Duncan Glen (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Duncan Glen

Encyclopaedia entry: Catherine Carswell (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Catherine Carswell

Encyclopaedia entry: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (J. Leslie Mitchell) (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (J. Leslie Mitchell)

Encyclopaedia entry: Violet Jacob (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Violet Jacob

Encyclopaedia entry: Fionn MacColla (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Fionn MacColla

Encyclopaedia entry: Compton Mackenzie (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Compton Mackenzie

Encyclopaedia entry: Ian Macpherson (2024)
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Lyall, S. (in press). Encyclopaedia entry: Ian Macpherson

'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4

Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish renaissance. Against this view, this article argues that the range of contrib... Read More about 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism.

Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’ (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11

Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of some MacDiarmid poems, describes the essay’s importance in the history of the... Read More about Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’.

Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100 (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2

Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name in The Scottish Chapbook in... Read More about Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100.

Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (in press). Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival (2023)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell

The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance sought rebirth in the nation's cultural past. Critics usually locate such... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival.