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...
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Limits of Community
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2013, July)
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Limits of Community. Paper presented at Community and its Limits, University of Greenwich, London
No abstract available.
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.
"The Catfish in the Aquarium": Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2015, November)
"The Catfish in the Aquarium": Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics. Presented at The Open History Society lecture, Edinburgh, Scotland
No abstract available.
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...
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.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2012, March)
Hugh MacDiarmid. Presented at The 2012 Andrew Tannahill Debate. Aye Write!, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
No abstract available.
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'...
"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's poetry and politics of place: imagining a Scottish republic
Book
Lyall, S. (2006)
Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry and politics of place: imagining a Scottish republic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet’s politics evolved from ...