Book Review: Hugh MacDiarmid: Black, Green, Red and Tartan by Bob Purdie, and Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) edited by John Manson
(2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). Book Review: Hugh MacDiarmid: Black, Green, Red and Tartan by Bob Purdie, and Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) edited by John Manson. Scottish Labour History, 49, 138-141
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'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History (2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History. Literature and History, 23(2), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.4Fionn Mac Colla’s ideas of history can be characterised as postcolonial in their critique of historical determinism, Cartesian dualism and Whig progressivism. He utilises his theories, which encompass the psychological implications for individuals an... Read More about 'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History.
‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance (2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106This essay argues that the twentieth-century movement of literary and cultural revival known as the Scottish Renaissance was, like the Irish Revival lead by W.B. Yeats, a counter-Renaissance against the anti-national ideals of the Renaissance; it was... Read More about ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance.