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Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100 (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2

Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in print under that name in The Scottish Chapbook in... Read More about Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100.

Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’ (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11

Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of some MacDiarmid poems, describes the essay’s importance in the history of the... Read More about Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’.

'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism (2024)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2024). 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4

Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish renaissance. Against this view, this article argues that the range of contrib... Read More about 'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism.

'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.

Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism (2019)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2019). Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0251

Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain’s main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to think more internationally about their nation and work, a cultural encount... Read More about Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism.

Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) (2017)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2017). Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981). Studies in Scottish literature, 43(2), Article 9

Discusses the healthy overlap in the recent BBC Scotland poll on Scotland's Favourite Novel between popular appeal and critical recognition; judges Gray's Lanark as "Scotland's greatest modern novel," which "deserves to be much better known internati... Read More about Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981).

'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.

‘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.

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.

Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose (2004)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2004). Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose. Scottish studies review, 5(2), 41-55

Explores the ways in which the activities of Christopher Murray Grieve in Montrose, Scotland as a journalist with the "Montrose Review," helped in the finding of poet Hugh MacDiarmid. Examination of MacDiarmid's professional working life; Analysis of... Read More about Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose.