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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

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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 Studie

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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.23.2.4

Fionn 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.

James Kelman and Liz Lochhead (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2014, July). James Kelman and Liz Lochhead. Presented at University of Edinburgh International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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‘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/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106

This 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.

Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2013, December). Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism. Paper presented at World-literatures, Discrepant Transnationalisms: Beyond Region and Nation?, Stuttgart, Germany

The Scottish Renaissance Movement of the 1920-30s was a response to what many literary artists of the period saw as Scotland’s provincialisation within the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Hugh MacDiarmid, arguably the main protagonist of the m... Read More about Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Limits of Community (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2013, July). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Limits of Community. Paper presented at Community and its Limits, University of Greenwich, London

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J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration (2012)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2012). J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration. Scottish Literary Review, 4, 131-150

The article presents the literary works of James Leslie Mitchell using the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It discusses Mitchell's adventurous spirit as reflected in the travel exploits of his characters in "The Lost Trumpet," "Hanno" and "The Thirte... Read More about J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance (2012)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2012). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. In G. Carruthers, & L. McIlvanney (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (173-187). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Though commonly viewed as definitively rural and nationalist, the Scottish Literary Renaissance was actually begun in London by an émigré community of Burnsian Scots. The Vernacular Circle of the London Robert Burns Club, set up in 1920 to save the D... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance.

Hugh MacDiarmid (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2012, March). Hugh MacDiarmid. Presented at The 2012 Andrew Tannahill Debate. Aye Write!, Mitchell Library, Glasgow

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Introduction (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S., & Palmer McCulloch, M. (2011). Introduction. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (1-5). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Representations of Community in Twentieth-Century Scottish Fiction (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2011, October). Representations of Community in Twentieth-Century Scottish Fiction. Paper presented at Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) Conference, The roots and the fruits of contemporary Scotland: literature and society, Unive