One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War.
(2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2009). One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War.
Outputs (344)
Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2007). Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning.
The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2007). The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations.
An emigre at home. (2014)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2014). An emigre at home. In S. Mallik (Ed.), Images of Life: Creative and other Forms of Writing. The Book World
Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30 (2014)
Book
Frayn, A. (2014). Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089220.001.0001This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the... Read More about Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30.
'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.23.2.4Fionn 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.
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 StudiesNo 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/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106This 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.
Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. (2014)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2014). Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. In G. Byron, & D. Townshend (Eds.), The Gothic World (132-142). Routledge
The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2013, April). The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics. Paper presented at British Society for Literature and Science Annual ConferenceCritical analyses of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) have attended closely to themes of biology, such as evolutionary degeneration, but those of physics have not been treated with comparable depth. While many accounts of The Time Machine do con... Read More about The first law of time travel: The Time Machine and thermodynamics..
Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'. (2013)
Book Chapter
Artt, S. (2013). Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopaedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate PublishingFrom vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters thr... Read More about Entries on 'Lord Ruthven', 'The Vampire Lestat' and 'Dark Shadows'..
The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction. (2013)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2013). The Gothic: Detection and Science Fiction. In C. McCracken-Flesher (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (96-103). The Modern Languages AssociationAn essay on how Stevenson fits into the genre of detection and science fiction literature.
Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2013). Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis. Theory and Psychology, 23(3), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354312473520This paper presents an entry-level approach to Lacanian Discourse Analysis. Along the way it considers crucial issues for textual analysis, arguing that Lacan’s insights provide an important collection of tools and concepts in dealing with textual re... Read More about Breaking the text: An introduction to Lacanian discourse analysis.
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance (2012)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2012). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. In G. Carruthers, & L. McIlvanney (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (173-187). Cambridge: Cambridge University PressThough commonly viewed as definitively rural and nationalist, the Scottish Literary Renaissance was actually begun in London by an émigré community of Burnsian Scots. The Vernacular Circle of the London Robert Burns Club, set up in 1920 to save the D... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance.
Mutual appreciation: Tagore on nation and nationalism. (2012)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2012). Mutual appreciation: Tagore on nation and nationalism. In B. Chakraborty, & K. R. Rajat (Eds.), Rabindranath Tagore Commemorative Volume. Visva-Bharati Press
In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London (2012)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2012). In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London. In D. Kempton, & H. R. Stoneback (Eds.), Aldington, Pound, and the Imagists at Brunnenburg (27-35). Greagau Press
Armistice Day and a mythologised, distant version of the First World War. (2011)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A. (2011). Armistice Day and a mythologised, distant version of the First World War. [The Guardian]
How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison (2011)
Book
Schwan, A., & Shapiro, S. (2011). How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison. Pluto Press
MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (68-81). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (2011)
Book
Lyall, S., & McCulloch, M. P. (Eds.). (2011). The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressBy using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fresh insights to major poems such as A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, To Circ... Read More about The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid.