Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland
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Lyall, S. (2022, September)
Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde
This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner i...
‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance
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Lyall, S. (2022, August)
‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance. Paper presented at MacDiarmid at 100, Online
The first number of The Scottish Chapbook was published in August 1922 and the journal ran until November/December 1923. The most important of MacDiarmid’s several journal pro...
Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, June)
Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Paper presented at The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance
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Lyall, S. (2022, March)
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance. Paper presented at 'The Scottish Revival and the Canon', Seminar 3 of The Scottish Revival Network, Online
Scottish Modernism as Renaissance
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Lyall, S. (2022, January)
Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]
"And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2021, October)
"And so with the moderns": Radical Futures, Classical Pasts in the work of J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Paper presented at A Proletarian Classics?, University of St Andrews [Online]
'"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River'
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Lyall, S. (2018, March)
'"It's a far cry to the golden age": Spiritual Revival in Sunset Song and Highland River'. Paper presented at Scottish Literature and World War One Symposium, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
No abstract available.
Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism
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Lyall, S. (2018, March)
Edwin Muir and the Question of Modernism. Presented at 'We Moderns': Current Work in Modernist Studies. The Scottish Network of Modernist Studies Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
No abstract available.
Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival
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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 ...
"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...