Edinburgh Napier University

Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance”

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 2022.

Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition

Journal Article

Thomson, T. (2020)

Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0281

This article interrogates current approaches to the annotation of scholarly editions in order to reframe annotation practice within an emerging ‘new modernist editing’. Using ...

Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism

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...

Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919)

Presentation / Conference

Schwan, A. (2019, April)

Creativity Behind the Barbed Wire: Irony, Humour and Masculinity in the Internment Camp Newspaper ‘Stobsiade’ (1915-1919). Presented at Professorial Lecture, Edinburgh Napier University

Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930

Journal Article

Frayn, A. (2018)

Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 192-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490072

The way that the First World War would be remembered was yet to be solidified in the years immediately after the Armistice and peace treaties. Using key case studies from the...

A Book is More Important than Food

Presentation / Conference

Gray, A. (2018, June)

A Book is More Important than Food. Paper presented at International Publishing By the Book 5, Florence

A Book is more important than food: collaboration with Streetreads, a charity working with homeless readers in Edinburgh.

The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future

Journal Article

Dryden, L. (2017)

The Inheritors, H. G. Wells and Science Fiction: The Dimensions of the Future. Conradiana, 49(2/3), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1353/cnd.2017.0013

In 1901 H.G. Wells published Anticipations, a provocative speculation on the future course of technology and on how social and political systems might evolve. In the same year...

A New Model for a University Press

Presentation / Conference

Gray, A. (2017, June)

A New Model for a University Press. Paper presented at International Publishing By the Book 4, Florence, Italy

Publication of pedagogical research via staff/student collaboration.

Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction

Book Chapter

Fraser, B. (2017)

Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction. In T. Mukherjee, A. Sen, & B. Fraser (Eds.), Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (3-29). Santiniketan, W. Bengal, India: Luath Press

The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the interchange of ideas initiated...

‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’

Presentation / Conference

Neill, C. (2015, March)

‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’. Presented at Manchester University, Discursive Practice Workshop., Manchester

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Embarking from Beckett's famous lines from Worstward Ho, this paper considers the import of the quota...