Scots beneath the Banyan Tree: stories from Bengal.
Book
Fraser, B., & Chitrakar, G. (2009)
Scots beneath the Banyan Tree: stories from Bengal. Luath Press
A collaborative project with a folk artist's scrolls telling the stories of Scots who have become iconic figures in Bengal. Each scroll is accompanied by the story in prose an...
A meeting of two minds: the Geddes-Tagore letters.
Book
Fraser, B. (2004)
A meeting of two minds: the Geddes-Tagore letters. Word Power Books
This seminal correspondence is a testimony to a great friendship, showing how 'The Twain', the East and West, can indeed meet. In the compiled letters, one can see how Patrick...
Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn
Book
Lyall, S. (in press)
Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literature
Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial t...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2024)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Literary Revival. In G. Carruthers (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature (127-139). Wiley-Blackwell
The Scottish literary renaissance is a paradox. Imagining Scottish history as a series of catastrophes – Reformation, Union, Enlightenment, industrialisation – the renaissance...
Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland
Other
Lyall, S. (2006)
Of poetry and politics: MacDiarmid's vision of Scotland. [The Scotsman]. https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/poetry-and-politics-macdiarmids-vision-scotland-2469677
The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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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 Scottish Renaissance
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2012)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. In G. Carruthers, & L. McIlvanney (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (173-187). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Though commonly viewed as definitively rural and nationalist, the Scottish Literary Renaissance was actually begun in London by an émigré community of Burnsian Scots. The Vern...