The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2014)
The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun. Comparative American Studies, 12(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570014Z.00000000081
While the initial literary and cultural response to 9/11 consisted mostly of domestic narratives of trauma and mourning that avoided explicit political discourse, narrative re...
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Book
Lyall, S. (Ed.)
(2015). The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scott...
These Shadows, These Ghosts
Book Chapter
Lam, L. (2017)
These Shadows, These Ghosts. In H. McDaid, & L. Jones (Eds.), Nasty Women. Edinburgh: 404 INK
With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever to share real experiences and hold the truth to account in the midst of sensa...
The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2015)
The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction. In S. Lyalls (Ed.), The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (119-132). Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
No abstract available.
D. V. Bishop on deception and lies in his explosive debut historical thriller, City of Vengeance
Other
Bishop, D. (2021)
D. V. Bishop on deception and lies in his explosive debut historical thriller, City of Vengeance. https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/crime-thriller/d-v-bishop-city-of-vengeance
D. V. Bishop’s thriller City of Vengeance is set in sixteenth-century Florence, a city of intrigue, lies and political machinations. Here he discusses the lies men tell in the...
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016)
Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers
This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather th...
The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Book
Lyall, S., & McCulloch, M. P. (Eds.)
(2011). The Edinburgh companion to Hugh MacDiarmid. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
By using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fres...
Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden
Thesis
Gordon, S. R. (2016)
Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453489
The purpose of this study is to recover and revise the contribution made to women's writing by the English minor novelist and poet, Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873), who was ...
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival
Presentation / Conference
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, Edinburgh
This 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 ...
The Wire and America's Dark Corners: Critical Essays
Book
(2015)
The Wire and America's Dark Corners: Critical Essays. ISBN 0786479183
No abstract available.