All Outputs (93)

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.

Modernism and the Scottish Renaissance (2023)
Other
Lyall, S. (in press). Modernism and the Scottish Renaissance. New Jersey

"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.

Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics (2022)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022). Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics. The Dark Horse, 46(Winter 2022/23), 106-107

'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (2022)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022). 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus. Clotho, 4(2), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.127-152

The focus of this article is J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymous gladiator. The article begins by examining Mitchell’s contribution to debates over the role o... Read More about 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus.

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.

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn (2022)
Book
Lyall, S. Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn. Association for Scottish Literature

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early decades of the twent... Read More about Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn.

‘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

Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd' (2022)
Other
Lyall, S. (2022). Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'. Edinburgh

Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence' (2022)
Other
Lyall, S. (2022). Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'. Edinburgh

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 Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Digital Artefact
Lyall, S., & Benstead, J. (2021). The Scottish Revival Network. [Website]

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]

Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2020). Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River. In D. A. Rennie (Ed.), Scottish Literature and World War I (180-199). Edinburgh University Press

Abstract not available.

Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance” (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance”. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press

No abstract available.

Forthcoming 2024.