'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism
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Lyall, S. (2024)
'To "Meddle Wi' The Thistle"': C. M. Grieve's Scottish Chapbook, The Little Magazine, and the Dilemmas of Scottish Modernism. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 28-49. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.4
Examines C. M. Grieve’s (Hugh MacDiarmid’s) most important journal enterprise, The Scottish Chapbook, which critics have assumed marks the beginning of a modernist Scottish re...
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’
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Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Denis Saurat on ‘“The Scottish Renaissance” Group’. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 183-185. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.11
Provides the biographical context and publication history for Denis Saurat’s essay ‘Le groupe de “la Renaissance Écossaise”’, which included Saurat’s French translation of som...
Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100
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Lyall, S. (2024)
Introduction: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100. Studies in Scottish literature, 49(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.2
Explains the background for this special issue, Hugh MacDiarmid at 100, in the Scottish Revival Network’s conference in August 2022, which marked the centenary of Hugh MacDiar...
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms
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Lyall, S. (in press)
Book Review: Richard Alan Barlow. Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies,
Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics
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Lyall, S. (2022)
Bogeyman: MacDiarmid, Scotland, and the Critics. The Dark Horse, 46(Winter 2022/23), 106-107
Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism
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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...
Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981)
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Lyall, S. (2017)
Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981). Studies in Scottish literature, 43(2),
Discusses 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'...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State
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Lyall, S. (2015)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State. The Bottle Imp,
'Hauntings of Celticism': Fionn Mac Colla and the Myth of History
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.23.2.4
Fionn 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 ...
‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance
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Lyall, S. (2014)
‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106
This 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 coun...