Scotland’s Top Ten & the Inadequacy of a National Canon: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981)
Journal Article
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'...
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 ...
Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016)
Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002
While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to pe...
"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2016, August)
"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse. Paper presented at ESSE 2016, National University of Ireland, Galway
This paper examines the work of two of the main protagonists behind the cultural and political revival of Ireland in the early twentieth century, W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pears...
Hugh MacDiarmid and Prejudice [In: Bella Caledonia]
Digital Artefact
Lyall, S. (2016)
Hugh MacDiarmid and Prejudice [In: Bella Caledonia]
Hugh MacDiarmid and Prejudice.
The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950)
Book Chapter
Dymock, E., & Lyall, S. (2015)
The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950). In C. Sassi (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Poetry (74-82). Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
No abstract available.
What Sunset Song Tells Us About The Modern World
Other
Lyall, S. (2015)
What Sunset Song Tells Us About The Modern World. https://theconversation.com/what-sunset-song-tells-us-about-the-modern-world-51509
What Sunset Song tells us about the modern world.
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.
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...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2015)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State. The Bottle Imp,