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...
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'...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the British State
Journal Article
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
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/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106
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...
J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2012)
J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration. Scottish Literary Review, 4, 131-150
The article presents the literary works of James Leslie Mitchell using the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It discusses Mitchell's adventurous spirit as reflected in the trave...
New Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the place of Scottish Studies
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2012)
New Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the place of Scottish Studies. Journal of Irish and Scottish studies, 6(1), 133-153
The man is a menace: MacDiarmid and military intelligence
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2007)
The man is a menace: MacDiarmid and military intelligence. Scottish studies review, 8, 37-52
Book Review: The Literature of Scotland by Roderick Watson
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2007)
Book Review: The Literature of Scotland by Roderick Watson. Scottish studies review, 8(2),
Abstract not available.
Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2004)
Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose. Scottish studies review, 5(2), 41-55
Explores the ways in which the activities of Christopher Murray Grieve in Montrose, Scotland as a journalist with the "Montrose Review," helped in the finding of poet Hugh Mac...