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Dr Scott Lyall's Outputs (98)

Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2025, February). Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question. Presented at 'For I Will Give You The Morning Star': A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

“The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid (2025)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid. In The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter charts the influence on Alasdair Gray’s work of the poet and propogandist for Scottish Renaissance Hugh MacDiarmid’s writings and cultural politics. It analyses the ways in which the spiritual journey or odyssey undertaken by the Drunk M... Read More about “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid.

To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance. In Nan Shepherd: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press

The Scottish Literary Renaissance is one of the main contexts for understanding Nan Shepherd’s work. As her correspondence shows, Shepherd was friends with many of the renaissance’s chief protagonists, and, at the renaissance’s highpoint in the 1920s... Read More about To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance.

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.

'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry. In Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions & Revisions. Brill Academic Publishers

Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) considered himself an atheist, but his poetry attends to religious and spiritual themes and concerns. This chapter sets MacDiarmid’s work in the context of New Modernist Studies’ approaches to literature a... Read More about 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry.

The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival. In The Scottish Literary and Cultural Revival, 1880s–1950s. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter examines the way critics of Scottish literary culture have tended historically to read revival as a sign of the cultural health or ill-health of the nation, consequently pathologising the literary culture and limiting the terms of critic... Read More about The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival.