Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'
(2022)
Other
Lyall, S. (2022). Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'. Edinburgh
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Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence' (2022)
Other
Lyall, S. (2022). Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'. Edinburgh
Scottish Modernism as Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, January). Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]
"And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, October). "And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Paper presented at A Proletarian Classics?, University of St Andrews [Online]
The Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Digital Artefact
Lyall, S., & Benstead, J. (2021). The Scottish Revival Network. [Website]
The Future of Scottish Women's Writing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, June). The Future of Scottish Women's Writing. Presented at Unforgettable, Unforgotten? Continuing the Recovery of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1880−1940, University of Edinburgh [Online]
The Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, March). The Scottish Revival Network. Paper presented at The Future of Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle, University of Glasgow [Online]
Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2020). Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River. In D. A. Rennie (Ed.), Scottish Literature and World War I (180-199). Edinburgh University PressAbstract not available.
Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance” (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance”. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University PressNo abstract available.
Forthcoming 2024.
The novel between the wars (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. The novel between the wars. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University PressNo abstract available.
Forthcoming 2024.
Modernist Scottish Women Writers [Website] (2019)
Digital Artefact
Lyall, S., Simpson, K., & Thompson, T. (2019). Modernist Scottish Women Writers [Website]. [Website]
The Living Mountain: in an age of ecological crisis, Nan Shepherd’s nature writing is more relevant than ever (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Lyall, S. (2019). The Living Mountain: in an age of ecological crisis, Nan Shepherd’s nature writing is more relevant than ever. The Conversation
Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2019, June). Nan Shepherd, or the Troublesome Nature of Scottish Modernism. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference, Kings College, London
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.2019.0251Germany 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.
‘The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence’ by Cairns Craig (2018)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2018). ‘The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence’ by Cairns Craig. The Bottle Imp,
'"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River' (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2018, March). '"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River'. Paper presented at Scottish Literature and World War One Symposium, University of Aberdeen, ScotlandNo abstract available.
Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2018, March). Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism. Presented at 'We Moderns': Current Work in Modernist Studies. The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, ScotlandNo abstract available.
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 9Discusses 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).
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2017, December). Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival. Paper presented at European Revivals Conference V - Cultural Mythologies around 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, EdinburghThis paper will argue that the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century was first-and-foremost a Symbolist movement. Focusing on the writing, thought and actions of, in particular, W. B. Yeats, George Russell (Ӕ), and Patrick Pea... Read More about Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival.
Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.