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All These People Are Me (2018)
Physical Artefact
Hook, D., Samson, A., & Duffy, D. All These People Are Me

‘All These People Are Me’ is a 14-track album concerned with identity, expression and contradiction. The aim in creating the album was to attempt to portray the writer as an individual, while championing inconsistencies and conflicts in human natu... Read More about All These People Are Me.

An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D. (2016, June). An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity. Paper presented at It Ain't Where You're From, It's Where You're At: International Hip-Hop Studies Conference

Hip-hop’s export, practise, appropriation and reuse can be found in cultures around the globe from Aborigines in Australia, to Palestinian hip-hop in the Middle East. While a number of academic works already exist examining the development of hip-hop... Read More about An autoethnography of Scottish hip-hop: social commentary, outsiderdom , locality and authenticity.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival (2023)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell

The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance sought rebirth in the nation's cultural past. Critics usually locate such... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival.

Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance” (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (in press). Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance”. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press

No abstract available. Forthcoming 2024.

Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle (2020)
Book
Alder, E. (2020). Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32652-4

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P. Lovecraft, the most famous author of weird fiction. From l... Read More about Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle.

Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature (2019)
Journal Article
Campbell, A. (2019). Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature. Humanities, 8(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010016

Following the recent call to ‘put the ocean’s agitation and historicity back onto our mental maps and into the study of literature’ (Yaeger 2010), this article addresses the histories and cultures of marine energy extraction in modern Scottish litera... Read More about Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature.

The novel between the wars (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (in press). The novel between the wars. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press

No abstract available. Forthcoming 2024.

City of Vengeance (2021)
Book
Bishop, D. (2021). City of Vengeance. London: Pan Macmillan

Florence. Winter, 1536. A prominent Jewish moneylender is murdered in his home, a death with wide implications in a city powered by immense wealth. Cesare Aldo, a former soldier and now an officer of the Renaissance city’s most feared criminal cou... Read More about City of Vengeance.

‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick (2021)
Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2021). ‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick. In L. Andrew, & S. Saunders (Eds.), The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (237-259). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7

Bishop offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many variations of sidekick found in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels, and in the three television drama series based on his characters. Focusing on the range of approaches taken to represent... Read More about ‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick.

From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans (2021)
Book Chapter
Keeble, A. (2021). From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans. In K. R. McNamara (Ed.), The City in American Literature and Culture (276-292). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

This chapter begins with a discussion of some of the contemporary critiques that have been aimed at trauma theory, focussing specifically on the way writing by Lauren Berlant and Rob Nixon has urged us to attend to systemic and/or slow violence. It a... Read More about From Trauma Theory to Systemic Violence: Narratives of Post-Katrina New Orleans.

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

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, Scotland

No abstract available.