Scottish Modernism as Renaissance
Presentation / Conference
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'
Presentation / Conference
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
Presentation / Conference
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
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 ...
"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...
Mystical Nationalists: W. B. Yeats, Fernando Pessoa and Hugh MacDiarmid
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2016, March)
Mystical Nationalists: W. B. Yeats, Fernando Pessoa and Hugh MacDiarmid. Presented at University of Edinburgh Research Symposium, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
No abstract available.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2015, October)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song. Presented at Association for Scottish Literary Studies Schools Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland
No abstract available.
James Kelman and Liz Lochhead
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2014, July)
James Kelman and Liz Lochhead. Presented at University of Edinburgh International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
No abstract available.
Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2013, December)
Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism. Paper presented at World-literatures, Discrepant Transnationalisms: Beyond Region and Nation?, Stuttgart, Germany
The Scottish Renaissance Movement of the 1920-30s was a response to what many literary artists of the period saw as Scotland’s provincialisation within the United Kingdom and ...