All Outputs (6)

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

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

No abstract available.

'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

No abstract available.

'Scottish Literature and New Cosmopolitanism': Scottish Literature as World Literature Panel (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2014, July). 'Scottish Literature and New Cosmopolitanism': Scottish Literature as World Literature Panel. Paper presented at World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Glasgow, Scotland

No abstract available.

‘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.