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ABRAHAMSON, ROBERT LOUIS: 'Lived In Books', Textualities, 2005

ACKER, KATHY: 'Public Interview with Alasdair Gray at the ICA, London', 1986 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

Adam, Henry

'Norme et marginalité: de la bonne ou de la mauvaise réputation dans The People Next Door de Henry Adam', Danièle Berton, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

Alasdair, Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir - see Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Alasdair

ALI, ZAHRA A. HUSSEIN: 'Adjusting the Borders of Self: Sir Walter Scott's The Two Drovers', Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2001

ALISON, JIM: 'Burns in School', Laverock 3, 1997

'Lummie', Laverock 3, 1997

'A Passage to Treasure Islands', ScotLit 29, 2003

'Thanks Courteous Wall', ScotLit 33, 2005

'Towards an Overview of Scottish Children's Literature from 1823–2010', The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

Allan, Dot

'Dot Allan: a Glasgow woman novelist', Moira Burgess, ScotLit 19, 1998

ALLEN, BROOKE: 'Boswell's Turn', The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001

ANDERSON, CAROL: 'An Interview with Alasdair Gray', with Glenda Norquay, Cencrastus, January 1983 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

Anderson, Lin

' Death and Literature: a conversation between Lin Anderson and Louise Welsh', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2006

ANDREWS, COREY E.: '"Ev'ry Heart can Feel": Scottish Poetic Responses to Slavery in the West Indies, from Blair to Burns', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'The Genius of Scotland: Robert Burns and His Critics, 1796–1828', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

Angus, Marion

'Writing the "Spirit of Place": the Poetry of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob', Katherine Gordon, ScotLit 34, 2006

ARATA, STEPHEN D.: 'The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde', Criticism, Spring 1995

'Stevenson's Careful Observances', Romanticism on the Net 47, August 2007

Arbuthnott, Gill

' Tales of the Unexpected: Gill Arbuthnott on the gestation, writing and publication of her novel The Chaos Clock', Gill Arbuthnott, Textualities, 2005

ARBUTHNOTT, GILL: 'Tales of the Unexpected: Gill Arbuthnott on the gestation, writing and publication of her novel The Chaos Clock', Textualities, 2005

Arthurian Literature

' An Interview with Mary Stewart', Raymond H. Thompson, on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

' An Interview with Naomi Mitchison', Raymond H. Thompson, on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

ASHLEY, KATHERINE: '"Ae Thoosand Tongues": Language and Identity in Psychoraag', International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

ATTEBERY, LOUIE W.: 'Take the High Road: a review of Colin Manlove's Scottish Fantasy Literature: a critical survey', Science Fiction Studies 72, July 1997

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Baillie, Joanna

'Christianity and Colonial Discourse in Joanna Baillie's The Bride', Christine Colon, Renascence, Spring 2002

'Rounding the Circle: American Interest in Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)', Evelyn Laidlaw, Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Science Fiction and Techno-Gothic Drama: Romantic Playwrights Joanna Baillie and Jane Scott', Marjean D. Purinton, Romanticism on the Net 21, February 2001

' "Shelley Himself in Petticoats": Joanna Baillie's Orra and Non-Violent Masculinity as Remorse in The Cenci', Stephen Hancock, Romanticism on the Net 31, August 2003

BAKER, ROSEMARY: 'John McNeillie's Wigtown Ploughman', Textualities, 2005

BAKER, STEPHEN: 'The Fetish of the New: Culture and Class in Alasdair Gray's Something Leather', The Glasgow Review, issue 3

BAKER, TIMOTHY C.: 'Ian Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster', International Review of Scottish Studies 33, 2008

Bakhtin, Mikhail

'Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature', Alastair Renfrew, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'Bye-Bye Bakhtin', Peter McCarey, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

BALINISTEANU, TUDOR: 'Dreaming Brokenly of Deaths by Fire: Deconstructions of Social Myths in A.L. Kennedy's Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains', Postgraduate English 11, March 2005

'My Words Should Catch Your Words: myth, writing and social ritual in A.L. Kennedy's Everything You Need', International Review of Scottish Studies 32, 2007

Ballads

'Orality's Silence: The Other Ballad Revival', Janet Sorensen, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'Scottish Ballads and Popular Culture', Suzanne Gilbert, The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads?', Elaine Petrie, Laverock 3, 1997

' Transformations of "Tam Lin": An Analysis of Folk-Tale Picture Books', Ginger Mullen, The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

Banks, Iain

'Coalescence and the fiction of Iain Banks', David Leishman, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

' Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes and the Ambiguous Utopia in the Work of Iain M. Banks', David Horwich, Strange Horizons, 21 January 2002

' Culture Shock: an Interview with Iain Banks', Andrew J. Wilson, ONE Magazine, 15 February 2008

'Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks', Christopher Palmer, Science Fiction Studies 77, March 1999

'Iain Banks in French: Translating “The Foreigner Within”', Olivier Demissy-Cazeilles, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

' An Interview with Iain Banks', Andrew Wilson, Textualities, 2005

'"Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior": la transgression chez Iain Banks et Irvine Welsh', Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'Poetic Licence - Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land', Gary S. Wilkinson, Vector, January 1999 (available on the Fearful Symmetry UK blog)

'Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks', Martyn Colebrook, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'The Worlds of Iain Banks', Alan MacGillivray, Laverock 2, 1996

BARBALET, JACK M: ' WJ and Robert Louis Stevenson: the Importance of Emotion', Streams of William James 3/3, 2001 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Barbour, John

'Back to the Future: The Bruce and Relevance to the 21st Century Reader', Christine Robinson, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'A Question of Truth: Barbour's Bruce, Hary's Wallace and Richard Coer de Lion', Nicola Royan, International Review of Scottish Studies 34, 2009

'Sacrilege, Sacrifice and John Barbour's Bruce', Sarah Tolmie, International Review of Scottish Studies 32, 2007

Barrie, Sir James

' From Drama to Silent Film: the Case of Sir James Barrie', Ronald D. S. Jack, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

'"Houdinizing" Peter Pan: the Magical Exploits of J.M. Barrie and Harry Houdini', Karen McGavock, e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

BARRON, CHARLES: 'Doric Drama', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

BARROWMAN, CAROLE E.: 'The Dark Threads of Tartan Noir', originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 24, 2004, available on Carole Barrowman's website

Bateman, Meg

' Lightness in the Highlands: a Biography of Meg Bateman', Robert Davidson, Textualities, 2005

'The Poetry of Meg Bateman', Alexander Shevlinn, on the Simply Scottish website

BATEMAN, MEG: 'Gaelic Poetry for English Classes?', Laverock 3, 1997

Bean, Sawney

'Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal – a folklore character', Sandy Hobbs and David Cornwell, Folklore, 1997

Beattie, James

' James Beattie's "The Judgement of Paris": a Neglected Example of Eighteenth Century Philosophical Poetry?', Virginia Sampson, Postgraduate English 12, September 2005

BEESEMYER, IRENE A.: 'Romantic Masculinity in Edgeworth's Ennui and Scott's Marmion: In Itself a Border Story', Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 1999

BELL, BARBARA: 'Meg Dods – Before the Curtain' (with John Ramage), International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

Benjamin, Walter

'Stevenson, Benjamin, and the Decay of Experience', Matthew Wickman, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

BENSKE, KARLA: '"Diabolus Ex Machina": Manipulation and Masterly Intrigue in James Kennaway's Some Gorgeous Accident', e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

BENSON, C. DAVID: 'Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"', Modern Language Quarterly, 53/1, March 1992 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Bernstein, Marion

'Mirren's Autobiography: The Life and Poetry of Marion Bernstein (1846-1906)', Edward H. Cohen and Linda Fleming, Scottish Literary Review, 2/1, Spring 2010 (made available through the Rollins Scholarship Online website) [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

BERTON, DANIÈLE: 'Mr Placebo d'Isabel Wright: de l'art de l'illusion et de l'expérimentation en un "théâtre d'opérations"', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Norme et marginalité: de la bonne ou de la mauvaise réputation dans The People Next Door de Henry Adam', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'Parcours et détours en Écosse: Dark Earth de David Harrower', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

BERTON, JEAN: 'Esquisse d'un paysage ontologique dans A Highland Trilogy de Kenneth Steven', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'L'étrange et le miroir dans The Fanatic de James Robertson', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'John Macnab et l'envers du décor, dans John Macnab (1925) de John Buchan et The Return of John Macnab (1996) de Andrew Greig', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Le retour d'exil dans l'œuvre de Iain Crichton Smith', Études Écossaises 13, 2010

'Translating Scottish Literary Texts: A Linguistic Clover-Leaf', International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

Berwick, Thurso - see Blythman, Morris

BESSON, CYRIL: 'Les Utopies adolescentes de Robert Louis Stevenson', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

BEVAN, BRYAN: 'The Versatility of Robert Louis Stevenson', Contemporary Review 264, 1994

BICKET, DOUGIE: ' Fictional Scotland in Film Drama and Literature', available on the k.i.s.s. of the panopticon website, and published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry 23/1, January 1999

BICKET, J. LINDEN: 'The Looms of History in George Mackay Brown's Literary Landscape', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

BIGNALL, JONATHAN: 'John McGrath and the Dialogues of Television Studies', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

BISSETT, ALAN: 'Damage Land Revisited: Scottish Gothic in the Noughties', The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

BLACK, RONALD: 'A Scottish Grammatical Tract, c.1640', Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Black, William

'Fantasy, Reality and the Woman Question: a re-reading of William Black's fiction', Margery Palmer McCulloch, ScotLit 29, 2003

Blackwood's Magazine

' Blackwood's Berserker: John Wilson and the Language of Extremity', Robert Morrison, Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

' North of the Border: Cultural Crossing in the Noctes Ambrosianae', Nicola Z. Trott, Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

Blind Harry

'A Question of Truth: Barbour's Bruce, Hary's Wallace and Richard Coer de Lion', Nicola Royan, International Review of Scottish Studies 34, 2009

Blythman, Morris

'a.k.a. Thurso Berwick: Doon Amang the Eskimos', Gordon McCulloch, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

Bochanan, Dùghall - see Buchanan, Dugald

BOOTH, GORDON: ' The Kirk and the Leid', published on the GKB Enterprises website

' Robert Louis Stevenson and William Robertson Smith: a Study in Contrast', published on the GKB Enterprises website

BORTHWICK, DAVID: 'From Grey Granite to Urban Grit: A Revolution in Perspectives', James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

Boswell, James

'Boswell's Turn', Brooke Allen, The Hudson Review, Autumn 2001

'James Boswell's Scotland', Tom Huntington, Smithsonian Magazine Issue 5, January 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

BOUCHER, FRANÇOIS-EMMANUËL: 'Thomas Carlyle et le culte du Héros aux époques de paralysie spirituelle', Post-Scriptum, 10, 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

BOWMAN, MARTIN: 'Trainspotting in Montreal: the dramatic version', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

BRADLEY, JOSEPH M: 'Scottishness in the Tartan Army', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

BRESLIN, THERESA: 'Scotland as Source: Personal Reflections by Theresa Breslin', The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

Brookmyre, Christopher

' Christopher Brookmyre in Conversation', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 16 March 2005

BROWN, ANDY: 'Robin Robertson's Swithering: a review', Stride Magazine, December 2005

Brown, George Mackay - see Mackay Brown, George

Brown, Ian

' History, Ideology and Performance in Ian Brown's Mary and A Great Reckonin'', Steve Cramer, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

BROWN, IAN: 'In exile from ourselves? Tartanry, Scottish popular theatre, Harry Lauder and Tartan Day', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'Scots and Welsh: Theatrical Translation and Theatrical Languages' (with John Ramage and Ceri Sherlock), International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

BUCHAN, JANEY: 'Them and Us: Reflections from Janey Buchan', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

Buchan, John

'John Buchan: the Presbyterian cavalier', R.D. Kernohan, Contemporary Review, February 1993

'The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet', Brett F. Woods, California Literary Review, March 2007

'John Macnab et l'envers du décor, dans John Macnab (1925) de John Buchan et The Return of John Macnab (1996) de Andrew Greig', Jean Berton, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

' "Realism Coloured by Poetry": Rereading John Buchan', Roger Kimball, The New Criterion, September 2003

'The Stalking Cure: John Buchan, Andrew Greig and John Macnab', John Corbett, ScotLit 30, 2004

Buchanan, Dugald

'Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?', James Robertson, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

BUCHANAN, JONI: 'Them and Us: Land', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

Bunyan, John

' Pilgrims: The MacDonalds and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress', Rachel Johnson, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

BURGESS, MOIRA: 'Dot Allan: a Glasgow woman novelist', ScotLit 19, 1998

'The Glasgow Short Story', Laverock 2, 1996

Burke, Gregory

' Jennie Renton interviews the playwright Gregory Burke, writer of Gagarin Way and The Straits', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

Burney, Frances

'Female Self-Treatment: Preventive Medical Regimes, Piety, and the Novels of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Elizabeth Helme', Catherine H. Decker, originally presented at the ASESC Conference, Tucson, April 1995, available on Dr Decker's Homepage

Burns, Robert

'A bard is not just for Burns Night', John Hodgart, Times Educational Supplement Scotland, 23 January 2009

'Burns in School', Jim Alison, Laverock 3, 1997

'"Death and Doctor Hornbook" by Robert Burns: A view from medical history', Malcolm Nicolson, Medical Humanities 36, June 2010 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Ear-Rhyme, Eye-Rhyme and Traditional Rhyme: English and Scots in Robert Burns's Brigs of Ayr', Jeremy J Smith, The Glasgow Review, issue 4

'The Genius of Scotland: Robert Burns and His Critics, 1796–1828', Corey E. Andrews, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Language Issues in Studying Burns for Revised Higher: Bard tae Waur?', John Hodgart, Laverock 3, 1997

'Lice, Mice, Bumclocks, Grubs: The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burns', Fiona Stafford, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'"A Man's a Man for a' That": Burns, Hogg and The Liberator', Janette Currie, Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'My Bard is in the Highlands: Burns 2009 and a National Scottish Literature', Michael Newton, The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Negotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns', Leith Davis, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'"Negro-driver" or "Illustrious Exile": Revisiting Ilustrious Exile: Journal of my Sojourn in the West Indies', Andrew O. Lindsay, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'The Poetry of Robert Burns: "A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth"', Karyn Wilson-Costa, E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 4/1, 2006

'Robert Burns and Tradition', Hamish Mathison, November 2007, hosted on the ASLS website

'Robert Burns the Scottish Bard: Prescriptivism, Poetic Primitivism, and the Status of Scots in the Eighteenth Century', Jennifer R. McDermott, 2007, hosted on Professor Carol Percy's webpages at the University of Toronto

'The Reception of Robert Burns' poems in French Art', Gilles Soubigou, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Robert Burns and the First World War', David Goldie, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Robert Burns and Ireland', Gerard Carruthers, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Thirteen Ways of Glossing 'To a Haggis': Disputing the Borders of Robert Burns' Paratexts', Alex Watson, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Two Talks on Burns', Jeffrey Skoblow, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

Burnside, John

' Comparison as the Gesture Between Them: John Burnside and Jorie Graham', Laurel Taylor, Postgraduate English 2, September 2000

'What He Could Bear: a review of A Lie About My Father', Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books, vol. 28 no. 5, 9 March 2006

BUTLER, LISA: '"that damned old business of the war in the members": The Discourse of (In)Temperance in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', Romanticism on the Net 44, November 2006

BUTTER, PETER: 'The Strengths and Weaknesses of Robert Falconer', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

Byrne, John

' Displacemeants – the Theatrical Art of John Byrne', Cairns Craig, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

BYRNE, MICHEL: 'Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance', ScotLit 26, 2002

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CAMBRIDGE, GERRY: 'Douglas Dunn in Conversation', The Dark Horse 8, Autumn 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Edwin Morgan in Conversation', The Dark Horse 5, Summer 1997 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Iain Crichton Smith at 70', The Dark Horse 6, Spring 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'One Piece of a Triptych: William Neill's Poetry in English', The Dark Horse 12/13, Winter 2001–2002 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

CAMERON, DAVID: 'The Printed Snow: On W.S. Graham', The Dark Horse 18, Summer 2006 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

CAMPBELL, DONALD: 'Greenness in Every Line: the drama of George Mackay Brown', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

CAMPBELL, IAN: 'Not the Kailyard...', ParaGraphs issue 2, 2002

'Spartacus', James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

Canadian-Scottish Literature

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', Uwe Zagratzki, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

CARBONI, PIERRE: 'Le paradigme newtonien et les soubresauts du vivant dans The Seasons de James Thomson', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

Caribbean see Scotland and the Caribbean

Carlyle, Thomas

'Carlyle éducateur: ou l'influence du penseur écossais sur l'œuvre de Swinburne', Sébastien Scarpa, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'Thomas Carlyle et le culte du Héros aux époques de paralysie spirituelle', François-Emmanuël Boucher, Post-Scriptum, 10, 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

CARPENTER, SARAH: 'Scottish Guising: Medieval and Modern Theatre Games', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

CARRUTHERS, GERARD: 'The Devil in Scotland', The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

'Revisionism in Irish and Scottish Literature: How far can we go?', in the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre Newsletter 10, June 2006

'Robert Burns and Ireland', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

Carswell, Catherine

' Catherine Carswell', David Fergus, Textualities, 2006

'Immortal Memories: the mysterious case of Catherine Carswell;', Eilidh Whiteford, ScotLit 24, 2001

CASARES, ALLYSON J.: 'The Effect of Book-Banning on Child Culture: A Close Look at the Harry Potter Series', The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

CASTRICANO, JODEY: 'Much Ado about Handwriting: Countersigning with the Other Hand in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Romanticism on the Net 44, November 2006

Ceni, Alessandro

' "Tra la prosa di Stevenson, il vento e l'acqua": Conversazione con Alessandro Ceni', Doriano Fasoli, published on the Riflessioni.it website, June 2005

CHAN-CHU, MURIEL: 'Trainspotting au théâtre: une adaption culturelle', Post-Scriptum, 3, 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Chaucer, Geoffrey

' Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"', C. David Benson, Modern Language Quarterly, 53/1, March 1992 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Chekov, Anton

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Tom Hubbard, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

Children's Literature

' 1492, 1942, 1992: The Theme of Race in the Harry Potter Series', Lana Whited, The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

' An Earthly Knight and Fire and Hemlock: Two "Tam Lin" Retellings', Kallie George, The Looking-Glass, 11/1, 2007

' Antigravity: Matter and the Imagination in George MacDonald and Early Science Fiction', Elmar Schenke, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

' Beasts and Monsters in MacDonald's Fantasy Stories', Dieter Petzold, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

' From Drama to Silent Film: the Case of Sir James Barrie', Ronald D. S. Jack, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

' The Effect of Book-Banning on Child Culture: A Close Look at the Harry Potter Series', Allyson J. Casares, The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

'Expelliarmus!: Retaliation and peaceable outcomes in the Harry Potter series', Janet Iafrate, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

' George MacDonald and the "Light Princess"', Bob Trexler, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society 30/3-4, March-April 1999 (text of paper on The George Macdonald website)

' Harry Potter and the Inklings: The Christian Meaning of The Chamber of Secrets', John Granger, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society November/December 2002 (text of paper on The Golden Key website)

'"Houdinizing" Peter Pan: the Magical Exploits of J.M. Barrie and Harry Houdini', Karen McGavock, e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

'Mark Twain and George MacDonald: the Salty and the Sweet', Kathryn Lindskoog, The Mark Twain Journal 30/2, 1992 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

' Men in Cloaks and High-Heeled Boots, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas: Witchy Masculinities in the Harry Potter Novels', Annette Wannamaker, The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

'“Miss, is this a real book?”: Scottish texts in Scottish classrooms', Maureen Farrell, The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

' The Morphing of Mollie Hunter, or Folklore as the Root of All Fantasy', Betty Greenway, The Alan Review, 23/3, Spring 1996

'Motion and Agency in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island', Christy Di Frances, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan', James Washick, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

'A Passage to Treasure Islands', Jim Alison, ScotLit 29, 2003

'Revealing Discrimination: Social Hierarchy and the Exclusion/Enslavement of the Other in the Harry Potter Novels', Amy M. Green, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

'Scotland as Source: Personal Reflections by Theresa Breslin', Theresa Breslin, The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

'The Sorcerer's Stone, Mirror of Erised, and Horcruxes: Choice, Individuality, and Authenticity in Harry Potter', Nichole LeFebvre, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

' Subversion and Recuperation of Gender Roles in George MacDonald's "The Day Boy and the Night Girl"', Linda Montag, The Looking-Glass, 7/1, 2003

' Tales of the Unexpected: Gill Arbuthnott on the gestation, writing and publication of her novel The Chaos Clock', Gill Arbuthnott, Textualities, 2005

'Towards an Overview of Scottish Children's Literature from 1823–2010', Jim Alison, The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

' Transformations of "Tam Lin": An Analysis of Folk-Tale Picture Books', Ginger Mullen, The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

' Waterwheels, Healing Springs and Baptismal Water: George MacDonald's Gutta Percha Willie: The Working Genius', Michael Düring, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

Cinema - see Drama

CLARK, WILLIAM: 'A Conversation with James Kelman', Variant 12, Spring 2001

CLOSE, AJAY: 'Digressions of a Master Strategist', The Scotsman, October 4, 2003 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

COHEN, EDWARD H.: 'Mirren's Autobiography: The Life and Poetry of Marion Bernstein (1846-1906)', with Linda Fleming, Scottish Literary Review, 2/1, Spring 2010 (made available through the Rollins Scholarship Online website) [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

COLEBROOK, MARTYN: 'Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

'Romanticism on Ice: Coleridge, Hogg and the Eighteenth-Century Missions to Greenland', Sarah Moss, Romanticism on the Net 45, February 2007

COLON, CHRISTINE: 'Christianity and Colonial Discourse in Joanna Baillie's The Bride', Renascence, Spring 2002

Comic Books

'It's Laldie Time! Scotland and the Comic Books', Alan Riach, The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Jackie Kay's Representation of "The Broons": Scotland's Happy Family', Maria del Coral Calvo Maturana, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' COMET and The House Among the Stars: Scottish Texts via the Internet', John Corbett, The Glasgow Review, issue 4

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Tom Hubbard, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

CONNELL, LIAM: 'Modes of Marginality: Scottish Literature and the Uses of Postcolonial Theory', Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 23, 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Connor, Ralph

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', Uwe Zagratzki, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

' Contemporary Scottish Writing', Thomas C. Richardson, The Literary Review, Winter 2002

CORBETT, JOHN: ' COMET and The House Among the Stars: Scottish Texts via the Internet', The Glasgow Review, issue 4

'The Current State of Scots', submitted to a Scottish Executive Committee investigating Scots Language Provision, 2001

'Literary Language and Scottish Identity', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Press-ganging Scottish Literature? Kidnapped and the City of Literature's One Book, One Edinburgh Project', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'Scots: Practical Approaches', ScotLit 25, 2001

'The Stalking Cure: John Buchan, Andrew Greig and John Macnab', ScotLit 30, 2004

CORELIS, JON: 'From Scotland to Suburbia: a Landscape of Current British Poetry', Eurozine, April 1999

CORNWELL, DAVID and HOBBS, SANDY: 'Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal – a folklore character', Folklore, 1997

COWAN, TED: 'Them and Us: All Faiths and None', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

CRAIG, CAIRNS: 'Displacemeants – the Theatrical Art of John Byrne', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

CRAMER, STEVE: 'History, Ideology and Performance in Ian Brown's Mary and A Great Reckonin'', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

Crichton Smith, Iain

'The Contribution of Iain Crichton Smith', Edwin Morgan, ScotLit 23, 2000

' Deer on the High Hills: the Elusiveness of Language in the Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith ', Douglas Gifford, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Iain Crichton Smith', Alexander Shevlinn, on the Simply Scottish website

'Iain Crichton Smith at 70', Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Horse 6, Spring 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Remembering Iain Crichton Smith', Alasdair D.F. Macrae, The Dark Horse 8, Autumn 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Le retour d'exil dans l'œuvre de Iain Crichton Smith', Jean Berton, Études Écossaises 13, 2010

CRICHTON SMITH, IAIN: 'Music, Above All: a Response to the Essay by Jon Corelis', Eurozine, April 1999

Crime Fiction

'The Dark Threads of Tartan Noir', Carole E. Barrowman, originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 24, 2004, available on Carole Barrowman's website

' Death and Literature: a conversation between Lin Anderson and Louise Welsh', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2006

' Hellenic Hush: an interview with Paul Johnston', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

'Murder in a Landscape', Annie Lamb, Textualities, 2005

'Practising Crime for a Living', Frederic Lindsay, ScotLit 24, 2001

'William McIlvanney's Laidlaw Novels', Beth Dickson, Laverock 2, 1996

CROSS, RICHARD K: '"Between the tiger's paws": Scotland, Czechoslovakia and the Poetry of Edwin Muir', Modern Age 50/3, Summer 2008

CRUMEY, ANDREW: 'The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media', published in The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

CRUZ, PABLO: 'Hyde y Olalla: las Dos Caras del Sueño', Babar: revista de literatura infantil y juvenil, 2002

Currie, James

'Negotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns', Leith Davis, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

CURRIE, JANETTE: 'From Altrive to Albany: James Hogg's Transatlantic Publication', Symbiosis Conference: previous publications December 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'"A Man's a Man for a' That": Burns, Hogg and The Liberator', Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Re-Visioning James Hogg: The Return of the Subject to Wordsworth's "Extempore Effusion"', Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 15, Winter 2005

CUTHBERT, ALEXANDER J.: 'Reforming Rhetoric: The Immodest Proposals of David Lyndsay', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

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DAVIDSON, PETER: 'Ficino in Aberdeen: The Continuing Problem of the Scottish Renaissance', (with Jane Stevenson), Journal of the Northern Renaissance 1, March 2009

DAVIDSON, ROBERT: 'Lightness in the Highlands: a Biography of Meg Bateman', Textualities, 2005

DAVIS, GRAEME: ' The Baird Letters', Journal of Language and Linguistics 1/1, Spring 2002

' Dunbar, Rosslyn and the Ordering of the Seven Deadly Sins', Journal of Language and Linguistics 2/2, Summer 2003

DAVIS, LEITH: 'Negotiating Cultural Memory: James Currie's Works of Robert Burns', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'A New Perspective on the Scottish Diaspora', The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

DECKER, CATHERINE H.: 'Female Self-Treatment: Preventive Medical Regimes, Piety, and the Novels of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Elizabeth Helme', originally presented at the ASESC Conference, Tucson, April 1995, available on Dr Decker's Homepage

DEGOTT, ANETTE: ' "No Extra Words": The Scottish Lyric Poet Norman MacCaig', Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 2, 1995

DELMAIRE, DOMINIQUE: 'Self and Otherness in Norman MacCaig's Poetry', E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 2/2, 2004

DEMISSY-CAZEILLES, OLIVIER: 'Iain Banks in French: Translating “The Foreigner Within”', International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

DENBY, DAVID: 'Northern Lights: How Modern Life Emerged from Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh', The New Yorker, 11 October 2004

Detective Fiction - see Crime Fiction

Devil, The

'The Devil in Scotland', Gerard Carruthers, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

DI FRANCES, CHRISTY: 'Motion and Agency in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

DÍAZ, E. GUILLERMO IGLESIAS: 'What is left in between: Trainspotting, from Novel to Film', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Diaspora - see Scottish Diaspora

Dickens, Charles

'Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan', James Washick, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

DICKSON, BETH: 'William McIlvanney's Laidlaw Novels', Laverock 2, 1996

DICKSON, ERIC: 'Inflamed by Sparks', Textualities, 2005

Dillon, Des

' Glasgow Dragon: an interview with Des Dillon', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

Diversity

'An Émigré at Home', Bashabi Fraser, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'Gaeldom and multi-ethnic Scotland: A long history and a short story', Silke Stroh, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'Infinite Diversity in New Scottish Writing', Suhayl Saadi, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Literature and Diversity: Border Crossing: New Scottish Writing', Willy Maley, published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'An Outward Looking Land: Suhayl Saadi and Scottish Multicultural Literature', Jonathan Henderson, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

DIXON, KEITH: 'Imagining Scotland in France', conference paper given in Glasgow 2002, published on the Raisons d'Agir website

DOCHERTY, JOHN: 'The Limitations of Reductionist Approaches to Thomas Wingfold, Curate', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

Doctors - see Medicine

DONNELLY, TIMOTHY: 'Nothing, in Other Words: the Poetry of Don Paterson', Verse, June 2004

Donovan, Anne

'An Interview with Anne Donovan', The Barcelona Review 37, July 2003

'Voices from Modern Literary Glasgow', Maggie Scott, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

DOSSENA, MARINA: 'Power to the singers: Scots, English, politics and policies', The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'When Antiquarians Looked at the Thistle: Late Modern Views of Scotland's Linguistic Heritage', The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

DOUGLAS, FIONA:

'Scots - a Language for Our Time?', The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - see Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

Drama (including Film and Television)

' Blood Red Roses: John McGrath and Lukacsian Realism', Stephen Lacey, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland', Randall Stevenson, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' "By Policy a Native Theatre": Glasgow Unity Theatre and the Significance of Robert Mitchell's Adaptation of The Lower Depths', Bill Findlay, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/1, 2001

' The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil: Political Theatre and the Case Against Television Naturalism', Robin Nelson, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

'Classical Theatre in Modern Scotland – a Democratic Stage?', Lorna Hardwick, The Role of Greek Drama and Poetry in Crossing and Redefining Cultural Boundaries, OU Open Seminar Series, 2002

' The Decentring of Docherty: The Scotsman in Contemporary Drama', David Pattie, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

' Disability, Invisibility and Theatre: Which Nation are we Staging?', Robert Rae, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/1, 2001

' Displacemeants – the Theatrical Art of John Byrne', Cairns Craig, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

'Doric Drama', Charles Barron, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

' From Drama to Silent Film: the Case of Sir James Barrie', Ronald D. S. Jack, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

' From Porridge to Pelf: Young Adam and the Mysterious Scottish Film Industry', Mike Small, Variant 18, Autumn 2003

' Fictional Scotland in Film Drama and Literature', Dougie Bicket, available on the k.i.s.s. of the panopticon website, and published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry 23/1, January 1999

'Goldoni in Scots', J. Derrick McClure, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

' Greenness in Every Line: the drama of George Mackay Brown', Donald Campbell, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

' History, Ideology and Performance in Ian Brown's Mary and A Great Reckonin'', Steve Cramer, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

' Home International: the Compass of Scottish Theatre Criticism', Randall Stevenson, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

'In exile from ourselves? Tartanry, Scottish popular theatre, Harry Lauder and Tartan Day', Ian Brown, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

' "Is it not possible to have a Poem made out of Theatre?" — an assessment of the dramas and dramaturgy of Joan Ure', Jan McDonald, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

' Jennie Renton interviews the playwright Gregory Burke, writer of Gagarin Way and The Straits', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

' John McGrath and the Dialogues of Television Studies', Jonathan Bignell, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' Klytemnestra's Bairns: Adapting Aeschylus into Scots', Bill Dunlop, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'Making them Bold and Breaking the Mould: Rona Munro's Bold Girls', Douglas Gifford, Laverock 2, 1996

' Meg Dods – Before the Curtain', Barbara Bell and John Ramage, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

'Mr Placebo d'Isabel Wright: de l'art de l'illusion et de l'expérimentation en un "théâtre d'opérations"', Danièle Berton, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Norme et marginalité: de la bonne ou de la mauvaise réputation dans The People Next Door de Henry Adam', Danièle Berton, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'Parcours et détours en Écosse: Dark Earth de David Harrower', Danièle Berton-Charrière, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

' Plurality of Scottish Theatre', Mark Fisher, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

'Populaire, politique et poétique: Réévaluer la réputation du théâtre écossais', Jean-Pierre Simard, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

' Sarah (Sadie) Ross Aitken, MBE: A Study of a Career in Theatre', Kathleen Gilmour, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

' Scots and Welsh: Theatrical Translation and Theatrical Languages', Ian Brown, John Ramage and Ceri Sherlock, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

'Scottish Drama: an overview', Edwin Morgan, ScotLit 20, 1999

' Scottish Guising: Medieval and Modern Theatre Games', Sarah Carpenter, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

'The Short, Astonishing History of the National Theatre of Scotland', Robert Leach, New Theatre Quarterly 23:2, May 2007 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis', Chris Ravenhall, ScotLit 22, 2000

'Scottish Women Playwrights Against Zero Visibility: New Voices Breaking Through', Ksenija Horvat, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

' Still Cool for Cats? The Life and Times of Wildcat Stage Productions', Tom Maguire, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

' Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer', Olga Taxidou, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

'Trainspotting au théâtre: une adaption culturelle', Muriel Chan-Chu, Post-Scriptum, 3, 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Trainspotting in Montreal: the dramatic version', Martin Bowman, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'Towards a reassessment of Douglas Young: Motivation and his Aristophanic translations', Bill Findlay, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

' The Use of Obsolete Scots Vocabulary in Modern Scottish Plays', Katja Lenz, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'What is left in between: Trainspotting, from Novel to Film', E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'You'll Have Had Your Theatre: Irvine Welsh's stage play You'll Have Had Your Hole', Willy Maley, Spike Magazine, January, 1999

Duffy, Carol Ann

'Baring Skills, Not Soul: Carol Ann Duffy's Intertextual Games', Catherine Lanone, E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 6/1, 2008

DUGGAN, LAURIE: 'On Gael Turnbull', Jacket Magazine 25, February 2004

Dunbar, William

' Dunbar, Rosslyn and the Ordering of the Seven Deadly Sins', Graeme Davis, Journal of Language and Linguistics 2/2, Summer 2003

DUNCAN, IAN: ' Hogg's Body', Studies in Hogg and His World 9, 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Scottish Romanticism, World Literature', The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

'The Study of Scottish Literature', ScotLit 28, 2003

DUNLOP, BILL: 'Klytemnestra's Bairns: Adapting Aeschylus into Scots', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

Dunn, Douglas

'Douglas Dunn in Conversation', Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Horse 8, Autumn 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

DUNN, DOUGLAS: '"Finished Fragrance": The Poems of George Mackay Brown', Poetry Nation 2, 1974

DÜRING, MICHAEL: 'Waterwheels, Healing Springs and Baptismal Water: George MacDonald's Gutta Percha Willie: The Working Genius', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

DYMOCK, EMMA: 'Strands of Politics in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean: Exploring the Symbol of the Skye Stallion in a Scottish and European Context', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

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' Ecosse, Littérature et Nationalisme Culturel: le Phantasme d'une Nation?', Camille Manfredi, Amnis 2002 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Edgeworth, Maria

'Romantic Masculinity in Edgeworth's Ennui and Scott's Marmion: In Itself a Border Story', Irene A Beesemyer, Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 1999

Edinburgh

'Literature and the Capital City: The Gable-Ends o' Time', James Robertson, published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

ELAHIPANAH, NOOSHIN: 'Saki's Engagement with Evolution, Naturalism and Determinism', Postgraduate English 9, March 2004

Eliot, T.S.

'Poetic Licence - Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land', Gary S. Wilkinson, Vector, January 1999 (available on the Fearful Symmetry UK blog)

Elphinstone, Margaret

'Waylaid by Islands', Margaret Elphinstone, The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

ELPHINSTONE, MARGARET: 'Fantasising Texts', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

' Scottish Fantasy Today', Ecloga Working Papers Journal 2001, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Waylaid by Islands', The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

Enlightenment - see Scottish Enlightenment

Evaristi, Marcella

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Faber, Michel

'Spending Imaginative Capital: Michel Faber and The Fahrenheit Twins', Andrew Lawless, Three Monkeys Online, October 2005

FANO, VINCENZO: 'Stevenson, Aristotele e la poetica delle circostanze', Isonomia, September 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Fantasy

' Beasts and Monsters in MacDonald's Fantasy Stories', Dieter Petzold, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'Beautiful Terrors: George MacDonald and Lilith', David Melville, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Blurring the Edges: Fantasy, Reality and the Fantastical Realism of Alasdair Gray', Ian Phillip, undergraduate dissertation, 1997, available on the Inside the Box website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Fantasising Texts', Margaret Elphinstone, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Fantasy, Reality and the Woman Question: a re-reading of William Black's fiction', Margery Palmer McCulloch, ScotLit 29, 2003

' The Morphing of Mollie Hunter, or Folklore as the Root of All Fantasy', Betty Greenway, The Alan Review, 23/3, Spring 1996

' Nature and Fantasy', John Pridmore, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

' Scottish Fantasy Today', Margaret Elphinstone, Ecloga Working Papers Journal 2001, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Take the High Road: a review of Colin Manlove's Scottish Fantasy Literature: a critical survey', Louie W. Attebery, Science Fiction Studies 72, July 1997

FARRELL, MAUREEN: '“Miss, is this a real book?”: Scottish texts in Scottish classrooms', The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

FARRIER, DAVID: 'Unwritable Dwellings/Unsettled Texts: Robert Louis Stevenson's In The South Seas and the Vailima House', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

FASOLI, DORIANO: '"Tra la prosa di Stevenson, il vento e l'acqua": Conversazione con Alessandro Ceni', published on the Riflessioni.it website, June 2005

Fell, Alison

' "Carved on the Page": John Stammers Interviews Alison Fell', John Stammers, Magma 11, Winter 1997

FERGUS, DAVID: 'Catherine Carswell', Textualities, 2006

'Robert Louis Stevenson: A Major Minor Poet?', Textualities, 2006

FERNANDES, DAVID RAMOS: 'An Interview with James Meek', The Barcelona Review 51, January-February 2006

'Fiction Opportunities: the 11/9 Project', Neil Wilson, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

Ficino, Marsilio

'Ficino in Aberdeen: The Continuing Problem of the Scottish Renaissance', Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson, Journal of the Northern Renaissance 1, March 2009

FIELDING, PENNY: '"No Pole nor Pillar": Imagining the Arctic with James Hogg', Studies in Hogg and His World 9, 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Film - see Drama

FINDLAY, BILL:

'Towards a reassessment of Douglas Young: Motivation and his Aristophanic translations', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'"By Policy a Native Theatre": Glasgow Unity Theatre and the Significance of Robert Mitchell's Adaptation of The Lower Depths', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/1, 2001

Finlay, Ian Hamilton - see Hamilton Finlay, Ian

First World War

'Land of Brave Men: Scottish Poetry of the First World War', Alan MacGillivray, Laverock 3, 1997

'Robert Burns and the First World War', David Goldie, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'A Sough o' War: The Great War in the Poetry of North-East Scotland', Colin Milton, taken from Northern Visions (Tuckwell Press, 1985, ed. David Hewitt), published on the Elphinstone Kist website

FISHER, MARK: 'Plurality of Scottish Theatre', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

FITT, MATTHEW: 'Use it or lose it', Matthew Fitt, The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

FLAWS, M.: 'Spikk Proper, Noo! Teaching Dialect in Primary School' (with M. Russell) published on the Elphinstone Kist website

FLEMING, LINDA: 'Mirren's Autobiography: The Life and Poetry of Marion Bernstein (1846-1906)', with Edward H. Cohen, Scottish Literary Review, 2/1, Spring 2010 (made available through the Rollins Scholarship Online website) [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

FLEMING, MORNA: 'Teaching Henryson', ScotLit 33, 2005

Folklore

'The Folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation', James Porter, Folklore, 1998

' An Interview with Hamish Henderson – 1987', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

' The Morphing of Mollie Hunter, or Folklore as the Root of All Fantasy', Betty Greenway, The Alan Review, 23/3, Spring 1996

'Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal – a folklore character', Sandy Hobbs and David Cornwell, Folklore, 1997

'Scottish Proverbs – "A new walk in an old field"', Fionnuala Carson Williams, Folklore, 2001

FORRESTER, J.M.: 'Tobias Smollett Consults a French Physician in 1763', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine vol. 92(5), May 1999

FRASER, BASHABI: 'An Émigré at Home', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

Fraser, G.S.

' George Sutherland Fraser: a Memoir', Paddy Fraser, Jacket Magazine 20, December 2002

FRASER, PADDY: ' George Sutherland Fraser: a Memoir', Jacket Magazine 20, December 2002

' From Scotland to Suburbia: a Landscape of Current British Poetry', Jon Corelis, Eurozine, April 1999

'From the Vibrant Margin: Literary Journals at the Scottish Writing Exhibition, Philadelphia 2006', Fiona Wilson, The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

FROST, ADAM: 'A Hundred Years of Saki', Contemporary Review, December 1999

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Gaelic

' Altus Prosator', Jane Stevenson, Celtica vol 23, 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'"Becoming Cold-Hearted like the Gentiles Around Them": Scottish Gaelic in the United States 1872–1912', Michael Newton, e-Keltoi, vol. 2

' Border Disputes: Gaelic Cultural Identity and Internaction in the Lennox and Menteith', Michael Newton, Celtic Cultural Studies, 2000

' The "British" Genealogy of the Campbells', William Gillies, Celtica vol 23, 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' A Century on the Census: Gaelic in Twentieth Century Focus', Kenneth MacKinnon, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

' The Death of Diarmaid in Scottish and Irish Tradition', Donald E. Meek, Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Finding the Poem: Modern Gaelic Verse and the Contact Zone', Corinna Krause, Forum 1, Autumn 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Gaeldom and multi-ethnic Scotland: A long history and a short story', Silke Stroh, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

' Gaelic & Scots 1300-1600: Some Place-Name Evidence', W.F.H. Nicolaisen, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (486KB - includes graphics)

'The Gaelic Literature of Argyll', Donald E. Meek, Laverock 3, 1997

'Gaelic in the New Scotland: Politics, Rhetoric and Public Discourse', Wilson McLeod, Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Summer 2001 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Gaelic Poetry for English Classes?', Meg Bateman, Laverock 3, 1997

'Gaelic Scotland – A Postcolonial Site? In search of a meaningful theoretical framework to assess the dynamics of contemporary Scottish Gaelic verse', Corinna Krause, e-Sharp 6, Autumn 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' A' Ghàidhlig Anns an 21mh Linn: Sùil Air Adhart', Wilson McLeod, Léachtaí Cholm Cille 31, 2001

'Iain Crichton Smith', Alexander Shevlinn, on the Simply Scottish website

'An Interview with Aonghas MacNeacail – 1994', Robert Mullally, Textualities, 2006

'Jacobite Past, Loyalist Present', Michael Newton, e-Keltoi, vol. 5

' Language Planning as Regional Development? The Growth of the Gaelic Economy', Wilson McLeod, Scottish Affairs 38, Winter 2002

' Lightness in the Highlands: a Biography of Meg Bateman', Robert Davidson, Textualities, 2005

''N Linnet Mhor: Some Linguistic Evidence from a Nineteenth Century Easter Ross Poem', Seosamh Watson, Scots and Gaelic - at home and abroad, 17 November 2001, Glasgow

'Nam Bithinn Mar Eun ("If I were a Bird"): Re-accessing the paralinguistic dimension of traditional Scots Gaelic storytelling', Stuart A. Harris-Logan, e-Sharp 10, Winter 2007 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader] Nam Bithinn Mar Eun ('If I were a Bird') Re-accessing the paralinguistic dimension of traditional Scots Gaelic storytelling

' Official Gaelic: Problems in the Translation of Public Documents', Wilson McLeod, Scottish Language 19, 2000

' Official Status for Gaelic: Prospects and Problems', Wilson McLeod, Scottish Affairs 21, Autumn 1997

' On the Development of the Group -rt in Scottish Gaelic', Seosamh Watson, Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'The Pastoral Celt: Images of the Gàidheal in Lowland Scots Song', Steve Sweeney-Turner, Celtic Cultural Studies, 1999

'The Poetry of Meg Bateman', Alexander Shevlinn, on the Simply Scottish website

'Popular Voices in Print: the Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894', J.I. Little, International Journal of Canadian Studies, Fall 1995

' Scotland's Languages in Scotland's Parliament', Wilson McLeod, Scottish Affairs 24, Summer 1998

' The Scots Element in the Gaelic Vocabulary of Domestic Furnishings and Utensils', Ian Quick, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (313KB - includes graphics)

' Scottish Gaelic Identities: Contexts and Contingencies', James Oliver, Scottish Affairs 51, Spring 2005

' A Scottish Grammatical Tract, c.1640', Ronald Black, Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Strands of Politics in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean: Exploring the Symbol of the Skye Stallion in a Scottish and European Context', Emma Dymock, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Them and Us: Gaelic Political Song', Morag MacLeod, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

'"This Could Have Been Mine": Scottish Gaelic Learners in North America', Michael Newton, e-Keltoi, vol. 1

'The Very Heart of Beyond: Gaelic Nationalism and the Work of Fionn Mac Colla', Iain Macdonald, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Galloway, Janice

'Bodies that Bleed: Sex as Fiction in Janice Galloway's Blood', Agnieszka Morusiewicz, published on the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health website

' An Interview with Janice Galloway – 1989', Ruth Thomas, Textualities, 2006

GARBIN, LIDIA: ' The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley', Romanticism on the Net 6, May 1997

Garioch, Robert

'"The Richness of Art": Reading Robert Garioch', Seán Haldane, The Dark Horse 21, Winter 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

GEORGE, KALLIE: ' An Earthly Knight and Fire and Hemlock: Two "Tam Lin" Retellings', The Looking-Glass, 11/1, 2007

GERMANÀ, MONICA: 'Embodying The Spectral Self: The Ghost Motif in Scottish Women's Writing', The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

'Real Gorgons or Fantastic Chimeras? Re-shaping Myth and Tradition in Alice Thompson's Justine', e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

Gibbon, Lewis Grassic (see also Mitchell, James Leslie)

'From Grey Granite to Urban Grit: A Revolution in Perspectives', David Borthwick, James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'Gibbon's Chris: a Celebration with some Reservations', Isobel Murray, James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'Ideology in Action: Modernism and Marxism in A Scots Quair', Margery Palmer McCulloch, James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999", Alan MacGillivray, ScotLit 21, 1999

'Why Everybody Needs Smeddum', Graeme Trousdale, The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

GIFFORD, DOUGLAS: ' Deer on the High Hills: the Elusiveness of Language in the Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith ', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Making them Bold and Breaking the Mould: Rona Munro's Bold Girls', Laverock 2, 1996

'Scott, Opera and the Italian Journey', The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

GILBERT, SUZANNE: 'Scottish Ballads and Popular Culture', The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

Gillies, Valerie

'An Interview with Valerie Gillies', interviewed by Laura Severin, Free Verse 15, Winter 2008

GILLIES, WILLIAM: ' The "British" Genealogy of the Campbells', Celtica vol 23, 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

GILMOUR, KATHLEEN: 'Sarah (Sadie) Ross Aitken, MBE: A Study of a Career in Theatre', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

GINZBURG, CARLO: 'Tusitala and his Polish Reader', Raritan 18/3, Winter 1999

GISH, NANCY: 'Jekyll and Hyde: The Psychology of Dissociation', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

GITTINGS, CHRISTOPHER E.: 'Re-Figuring Imperialism: Gray, Cohen, Atwood and the Female Body', The Glasgow Review, issue 3

Glasgow

'The Glasgow Short Story', Moira Burgess, Laverock 2, 1996

Glover, Sue

' Silences and Utterances: An Interactional Analysis of Gender Differences in Language in The Straw Chair, Dracula, and Mouthpieces', Ksenija Horvat, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

GOLDIE, DAVID: 'Hugh MacDiarmid, Harry Lauder and Scottish Popular Culture', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'Robert Burns and the First World War', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

Goldoni, Carlo

'Goldoni in Scots', J. Derrick McClure, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

GORDON, KATHERINE: 'Writing the "Spirit of Place": the Poetry of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob', ScotLit 34, 2006

Gothic

'Damage Land Revisited: Scottish Gothic in the Noughties', Alan Bissett, The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

'Embodying The Spectral Self: The Ghost Motif in Scottish Women's Writing', Monica Germanà, The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

'James Pryde; the Edgar Allan Poe of Painting', Louise Welsh, The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

'Science Fiction and Techno-Gothic Drama: Romantic Playwrights Joanna Baillie and Jane Scott', Marjean D. Purinton, Romanticism on the Net 21, February 2001

'Scottish Gothic: towards a definition', Kirsty Macdonald, The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

Graham, Jorie

' Comparison as the Gesture Between Them: John Burnside and Jorie Graham', Laurel Taylor, Postgraduate English 2, September 2000

Graham, W.S.

'The Printed Snow: On W.S. Graham', David Cameron, The Dark Horse 18, Summer 2006 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' W.S. Graham's New Collected Poems: a Review', Peter Riley, Jacket Magazine 26, October 2004

GRANGER, JOHN: 'Harry Potter and the Inklings: The Christian Meaning of The Chamber of Secrets', CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society November/December 2002 (text of paper on The Golden Key website)

Grant, James

'Salute to an Adventurer', David Menzies, ScotLit 35, 2007

Gray, Alasdair

' Ach Well: an Interview with Alasdair Gray', Laura Hird, The New Review, May 2005

'Digressions of a Master Strategist', Ajay Close, The Scotsman , October 4 2003 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

' Drafts and Papers of Lanark: a Life in Four Books', Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department, May 2002

'The Fetish of the New: Culture and Class in Alasdair Gray's Something Leather', Stephen Baker, The Glasgow Review, issue 3

'Gray's Anatomy: a review of Lanark', Suhayl Saadi, Hoolet, Autumn 2001 (article archived on Suhayl Saadi's website)

' History's Mandate: Alasdair Gray and the Art of Independence', Willy Maley, The Glasgow Review, issue 3

'An Interview with Alasdair Gray', Glenda Norquay and Carol Anderson, Cencrastus, January 1983 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

'An Introduction to Alasdair Gray: Critical Introductions and a Bibliography', Will Self, on the official Will Self website (originally published in the British Library edition of Essays on Alasdair Gray, edited by Phil Moores)

'A Letter from a Western Empire', David Manderson, Chapman 97, 2000

'Public Interview at the ICA, London', Kathy Acker, 1986 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

'Reconstructing the Non-Existent: Levels of Self-Reference in Lanark', Mario Díaz Martínez, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 8 (1995), available on the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Re-Figuring Imperialism: Gray, Cohen, Atwood and the Female Body', Christopher E Gittings, The Glasgow Review, issue 3

' The Self-Consuming Dystopia of Age', Lidia Vianu, on the Desperado Literature website, following on from an interview with Alasdair Gray

'Unreliable Narrators: Poor Things and its Paradigms', Philip Hobsbaum, The Glasgow Review, issue 3

' Unthanksgiving: Lanark – a review', Joy Press, The Village Voice, November 27–December 3, 2002

'Working Towards a Better Nation: Innovation and Entrapment in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray', Neil James Rhind, International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

GRAY, JANE: 'Giving "people like that" a Voice: a Conversation with Agnes Owens', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'The Woman with the Ibo Nose and the Scottish Tongue: Expressions of Belonging and Return in Jackie Kay's Writing', Études Écossaises 13, 2010

GREEN, AMY M.: 'Revealing Discrimination: Social Hierarchy and the Exclusion/Enslavement of the Other in the Harry Potter Novels', The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

GREENWAY, BETTY: 'The Morphing of Mollie Hunter, or Folklore as the Root of All Fantasy', The Alan Review, 23/3, Spring 1996

Greig, Andrew

'John Macnab et l'envers du décor, dans John Macnab (1925) de John Buchan et The Return of John Macnab (1996) de Andrew Greig', Jean Berton, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'The Stalking Cure: John Buchan, Andrew Greig and John Macnab', John Corbett, ScotLit 30, 2004

Grieve, Christopher Murray - see MacDiarmid, Hugh

Gunn, Neil

'The Novels of Neil Gunn', Margery Palmer McCulloch, Laverock 1, 1995

'A Shrinking Highlands: Neil Gunn, Nationalism and the "World Republic of Letters"', Ryan D. Shirey, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

'"We will beat the landlords and the scenic sentimentalists": Neil M. Gunn and Landscape Discourse in the "Hydro" Debates', Andrew J. Sneddon, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

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HALDANE, SEÁN: '"The Richness of Art": Reading Robert Garioch', The Dark Horse 21, Winter 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

HALL, ALARIC: 'The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch', Scottish Language 26, 2007; available through the White Rose Research Online website

Hamilton, Elizabeth

' "Adorno's Hut": Ian Hamilton Finlay's Neoclassical Rearmament Programme', Drew Milne, Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

' On Ian Hamilton Finlay', Brian Kim Stefans, Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

' The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Modernist Fragment, and the Neo-classical Sublime', Mark Scroggins, Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

HANCOCK, STEPHEN: ' "Shelley Himself in Petticoats": Joanna Baillie's Orra and Non-Violent Masculinity as Remorse in The Cenci', Romanticism on the Net 31, August 2003

HARDWICK, LORNA: 'Classical Theatre in Modern Scotland – a Democratic Stage?', The Role of Greek Drama and Poetry in Crossing and Redefining Cultural Boundaries, OU Open Seminar Series, 2002

Harris, Wilson

'Other than Realism: Magic and Violence in Modern Scottish Fiction and the Recent Work of Wilson Harris', Alan Riach, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

HARRIS-LOGAN, STUART A.: 'Nam Bithinn Mar Eun ("If I were a Bird"): Re-accessing the paralinguistic dimension of traditional Scots Gaelic storytelling', e-Sharp 10, Winter 2007 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Harrower, David

'Parcours et détours en Écosse: Dark Earth de David Harrower', Danièle Berton-Charrière, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

HARVIE, CHRISTOPHER: 'Bring Me the Head of Irvine Welsh! Fiction and Politics in Modern Scotland', 14 May 2003, published on Tübingen University's Intelligent Mr Toad website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'The Folly of our Fable: Getting Scottish History Wrong', Scottish Studies Review vol 1, 2000, available on Tübingen University's Intelligent Mr Toad website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Hary - see Blind Harry

HASLER, ANTONY: 'Frontier Creatures: The Imaginary Characters of Weir of Hermiston', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

Hay, George Campbell

' George Campbell Hay: Nationalism with a Difference', Christopher Whyte, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance', Michel Byrne, ScotLit 26, 2002

HEANEY, SEAMUS: 'The Shining Streams: a Tribute to MacDiarmid', The Dark Horse 15, Summer 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Helme, Elizabeth

' An Interview with Hamish Henderson – 1987', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

HENDERSON, JONATHAN: 'An Outward Looking Land: Suhayl Saadi and Scottish Multicultural Literature', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

Henryson, Robert

' Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"', C. David Benson, Modern Language Quarterly, 53/1, March 1992 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Henrysoun: The Fables', Tom Scott, Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

'Henrysoun: The Minor Poems', Tom Scott, Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

'Henrysoun: The Narrative Tragedies', Tom Scott, Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

'Reading the Texts of Henryson's Fables', Kevin J. McGinley, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'Teaching Henryson', Morna Fleming, ScotLit 33, 2005

HEPTONSTALL, GEOFFREY: 'Muriel Spark: the English novel in the 20th century', Contemporary Review, October 1996

Herbert, W.N.

'Wandering the Planet: a review of W.N. Herbert's The Big Bumper Book of Troy', Vivek Narayanan, Perihelion, Vol III, issue 8, 2003

Herd, David

'Orality's Silence: The Other Ballad Revival', Janet Sorensen, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

HESSE, BEATRIX: 'The Unco Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson in German Translation', International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

HIRD, LAURA: 'Ach Well: an Interview with Alasdair Gray', The New Review, May 2005

History

'The Folly of our Fable: Getting Scottish History Wrong', Christopher Harvie, Scottish Studies Review vol 1, 2000, available on Tübingen University's Intelligent Mr Toad website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

HOBBS, SANDY and CORNWELL, DAVID: 'Sawney Bean, the Scottish Cannibal – a folklore character', Folklore, 1997

HOBSBAUM, PHILIP: 'Unreliable Narrators: Poor Things and its Paradigms', The Glasgow Review, issue 3

HODGART, JOHN: 'A bard is not just for Burns Night', Times Educational Supplement Scotland, 23 January 2009

'Language Issues in Studying Burns for Revised Higher: Bard tae Waur?', Laverock 3, 1997

Hogg, James (see also Blackwood's Magazine)

'From Altrive to Albany: James Hogg's Transatlantic Publication', Janette Currie, Symbiosis Conference: previous publications December 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Hogg's Body', Ian Duncan, Studies in Hogg and His World 9, 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' James Hogg in 2000 and Beyond', Douglas S. Mack, Romanticism on the Net 19, August 2000

' James Hogg and the Unfathomable Hell', Richard D. Jackson, Romanticism on the Net 28, November 2002

'"A Man's a Man for a' That": Burns, Hogg and The Liberator', Janette Currie, Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'"No Pole nor Pillar": Imagining the Arctic with James Hogg', Penny Fielding, Studies in Hogg and His World 9, 1998 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Posing as the ultimate Scottish Songster: James Hogg's Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd or Hogg GOLD!', Kirsteen McCue, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

' Re-Visioning James Hogg: The Return of the Subject to Wordsworth's "Extempore Effusion"', Janette Currie, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 15, Winter 2005

'Romanticism on Ice: Coleridge, Hogg and the Eighteenth-Century Missions to Greenland', Sarah Moss, Romanticism on the Net 45, February 2007

HORVAT, KSENIJA: 'Scottish Women Playwrights Against Zero Visibility: New Voices Breaking Through', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

'Silences and Utterances: An Interactional Analysis of Gender Differences in Language in The Straw Chair, Dracula, and Mouthpieces', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

HORWICH, DAVID: ' Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes and the Ambiguous Utopia in the Work of Iain M. Banks', Strange Horizons, 21 January 2002

HUBBARD, TOM: '1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1800', 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

'Doing Something Uncustomary: Edwin Morgan and Attila József', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

Hume, David

'David Hume et l'essor du modèle scientifique au XVIIIe siècle dans les Dialogues sur la religion naturelle', Patrick Menneteau, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'"Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth" ou le réalisme utopique de David Hume', Gilles Robel, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

HUNTER, ANDY: 'Them and Us: Jacobite Song', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

Hunter, Mollie

' The Morphing of Mollie Hunter, or Folklore as the Root of All Fantasy', Betty Greenway, The Alan Review, 23/3, Spring 1996

HUNTINGTON, TOM: 'James Boswell's Scotland', Smithsonian Magazine Issue 5, January 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

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IAFRATE, JANET: 'Expelliarmus!: Retaliation and peaceable outcomes in the Harry Potter series', The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

'Imagining Scotland in France', Keith Dixon, conference paper given in Glasgow 2002, published on the Raisons d'Agir website

INCORVATI, RICK: ' Darsie Latimer's "Little Solidity", or the Case for Homosexuality in Scott's Redgauntlet', Romanticism on the Net 36-37, November 2004-February 2005

'An Introduction to Scottish Poetry', Susan Tichy, on her Resources for Students website

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JACK, RONALD D.S.: '1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1600', 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

' From Drama to Silent Film: the Case of Sir James Barrie', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

JACKSON, DARREN: 'The Beach of Falesá and the Colonial Enterprise', Limina vol 6, 2000 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

JACKSON, RICHARD D.: ' James Hogg and the Unfathomable Hell', Romanticism on the Net 28, November 2002

Jacob, Violet

'Writing the "Spirit of Place": the Poetry of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob', Katherine Gordon, ScotLit 34, 2006

Jacobites

'The Ell-Wand and the Sword: The Historical Fiction of Neil Munro', Ronald Renton, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'Jacobitism in History', Murray Pittock, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

James, William

'WJ and Robert Louis Stevenson: the Importance of Emotion', Jack M Barbalet, Streams of William James 3/3, 2001 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Jamie, Kathleen

' "History in a New Scheme": a review of Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie', Andrew Neilson, Magma 16, Winter 2000

JAMIESON, ROBERT ALAN: '"Webs and Wabsters": Small Presses, Magazines and Websites', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

Jenkins, Robin

'Exile and Expatriates in Robin Jenkins' Novels', Bernard Sellin, Études Écossaises 13, 2010

'Robin Jenkins' Fiction', Isobel Murray, Laverock 2, 1996)

JOHNSON, RACHEL: 'Pilgrims: The MacDonalds and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

JOHNSTON, DAVID: 'Scots in the Secondary School', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

Johnston, Paul

' Hellenic Hush: an interview with Paul Johnston', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

JOLLY, ROSLYN: '"You want some action for this dollar?": Gambling for the Plot in Pursued and The Master of Ballantrae', Sydney Studies in English 34, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Jones, Diana Wynne

' An Earthly Knight and Fire and Hemlock: Two "Tam Lin" Retellings', Kallie George, The Looking-Glass, 11/1, 2007

JONES, CAROLE: 'White Men on Their Backs: the Representation of the White Male as Victim in William McIlvanney's Docherty and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

JONES, RUSSELL: 'Computer Error: Voices and Translations in Edwin Morgan's Science Fiction Poetry', Forum 11, Autumn 2010

József, Attila

'Doing Something Uncustomary: Edwin Morgan and Attila József', Tom Hubbard, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

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KACKUTE, EGLE: ' Identity in A.L. Kennedy's Novel So I Am Glad and Short Story Original Bliss', Literature, 49(5), 2007

Kay, Jackie

'An Interview with Jackie Kay', Free Verse, Spring 2002

'Jackie Kay's Representation of "The Broons": Scotland's Happy Family', Maria del Coral Calvo Maturana, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'The Woman with the Ibo Nose and the Scottish Tongue: Expressions of Belonging and Return in Jackie Kay's Writing', Jane Gray, Études Écossaises 13, 2010

KEASE, JOHN: 'Some Comments on "The Computer's First Code Poem" by Machine Employed by Mr Edwin Morgan', Poetry Nation 2, 1974

KEGLER, ADELHEID: ' The Sleep of the Soul: Night's Pore in Torments: The Blending of Traditional and Swedenborgian Structures of Thought in Lilith', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'Wilfrid Cumbermede: a Novel in the Context of European Symbolism', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

KEGLER, KARL: ' A Crystal City: Sodom - Bulika - Jerusalem', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

KELLY, AARON: '"I just tell the bloody truth, as I see it": James Kelman's A Disaffection, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Melancholy Knowledge', Aaron Kelly, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

KELLY, STUART: 'Literary Exchanges: Scotland, Europe and World Literature', published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

Kelman, James

' "And the Judges Said..."', James Kelman, from a talk given at the Glasgow School of Art in 1996 on his own cultural influences, published in Variant 2, Spring 1997

' A Conversation with James Kelman', William Clark, Variant 12, Spring 2001

'"I just tell the bloody truth, as I see it": James Kelman's A Disaffection, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Melancholy Knowledge', Aaron Kelly, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'James Kelman: A Resistance to Transfer', Aniela Korzeniowska, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'"Diabolus Ex Machina": Manipulation and Masterly Intrigue in James Kennaway's Some Gorgeous Accident', Karla Benske, e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

Kennedy, A.L.

' Dreaming Brokenly of Deaths by Fire: Deconstructions of Social Myths in A.L. Kennedy's Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains', Tudor Balinisteanu, Postgraduate English 11, March 2005

' Identity in A.L. Kennedy's Novel So I Am Glad and Short Story Original Bliss', Egle Kackute, Literature, 49(5), 2007

'La septième solitude: Everything You Need, ou le voyage en Hyperborée d' A.L. Kennedy', Camille Manfredi, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'My Words Should Catch Your Words: myth, writing and social ritual in A.L. Kennedy's Everything You Need', Mihai Tudor Balinisteanu, International Review of Scottish Studies 32, 2007

KERNOHAN, R.D.: 'John Buchan: the Presbyterian cavalier', Contemporary Review, February 1993

'Will Ye No' Come Back Again? Whatever happened to Sir Walter Scott?', Contemporary Review, May 1993

Kesson, Jessie

'Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Self', Isobel Murray, Laverock 3, 1997

KIMBALL, ROGER: '"Realism Coloured by Poetry": Rereading John Buchan', The New Criterion, September 2003

KING, ZÖE: 'A Lark, Singing for the Love of the Land – Zöe King Talks to Kenneth C Steven', on the author's website, 2002

Kinloch, David

' David Kinloch's Paris Forfar', Peter Manson, on the Freebase Accordion website

KIRKLAND, CHRIS: 'A Time of Terror: England's Social Condition in the Late 19th Century and the Rise of the Novel of Terror ', Gateway, Summer 2001

KORZENIOWSKA, ANIELA: 'James Kelman: A Resistance to Transfer', International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'The Significance of Scots and its Accents in Contemporary Scottish Literature, and its reflection in Translation', Literature, 49(5), 2007

KRASZKIEWICZ, CLAUDIA E., ' Glasgow Revisitado: Edwin Morgan e Sua Cidade Natal', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

' Glasgow Revisited: Edwin Morgan and His Native City', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

KRAUSE, CORINNA: 'Finding the Poem: Modern Gaelic Verse and the Contact Zone', Forum 1, Autumn 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Gaelic Scotland – A Postcolonial Site? In search of a meaningful theoretical framework to assess the dynamics of contemporary Scottish Gaelic verse', e-Sharp 6, Autumn 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Kundera, Milan

'In Place of Dialectics: Freedom and Contingency in Russian and Scottish Fiction', Laurence Nicoll, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

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LACEY, STEPHEN: 'Blood Red Roses: John McGrath and Lukacsian Realism', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

LAIDLAW, EVELYN: 'Rounding the Circle: American Interest in Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)', Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

LAMB, ANNIE: 'Murder in a Landscape', Textualities, 2005

LANONE, CATHERINE: 'Baring Skills, Not Soul: Carol Ann Duffy's Intertextual Games', E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 6/1, 2008

LARGEAUD-ORTEGA, SYLVIE: 'Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Isle of Voices": the stakes of modernity in the late 19th century Pacific', paper presented at the 2nd Symposium on French Research in the Pacific [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Lauder, Sir Harry

'Hugh MacDiarmid, Harry Lauder and Scottish Popular Culture', David Goldie, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

LAURENCE, ALEXANDER: 'Duncan McLean: Scottish Writer, 13, May 2001

LAWLESS, ANDREW: 'The People's Act of Love: author James Meek in interview', Three Monkeys Online, September 2005

'Spending Imaginative Capital: Michel Faber and The Fahrenheit Twins', Three Monkeys Online, October 2005

LEACH, ROBERT: 'The Short, Astonishing History of the National Theatre of Scotland',New Theatre Quarterly 23:2, May 2007 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

LeFEBVRE, NICHOLE: 'The Sorcerer's Stone, Mirror of Erised, and Horcruxes: Choice, Individuality, and Authenticity in Harry Potter', The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

LEHNER, STEFANIE: 'Towards a subaltern aesthetics: Reassessing Postcolonial Criticism for Contemporary Northern Irish and Scottish Literatures. James Kelman and Robert McLiam Wilson's Rewriting of National Paradigms', e-Sharp 5, Summer 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

LEISHMAN, DAVID: 'Coalescence and the fiction of Iain Banks', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Reason, Justice, Cannibalism: utopian themes in the fiction of James Meek', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

LENZ, KATJA: 'The Use of Obsolete Scots Vocabulary in Modern Scottish Plays', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

Leonard, Tom

' Talking to Tom Leonard', Dan Stephen, Variant 5, Spring 1998

Lessing, Doris

' When Naomi Met Doris', Greg Michaelson, Textualities, 2005

Lewis, C.S.

'Links in a Golden Chain: C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Sadhu Sundar Singh', Kathryn Lindskoog, Lewis Legacy 69, Summer 1996 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

Lindsay, David

' David Lindsay: A Scottish Genius', "Booksleuth", Textualities; originally published in the Scottish Book Collector no. 1, 1987

'Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities', Stuart Kelly, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

' The Sleep of the Soul: Night's Pore in Torments: The Blending of Traditional and Swedenborgian Structures of Thought in Lilith', Adelheid Kegler, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

Lindsay, Sir David - see Lyndsay, Sir David

LINDSAY, ANDREW O.: '"Negro-driver" or "Illustrious Exile": Revisiting Ilustrious Exile: Journal of my Sojourn in the West Indies', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

LINDSAY, FREDERIC: 'Practising Crime for a Living', ScotLit 24, 2001

LINDSKOOG, KATHRYN: 'Links in a Golden Chain: C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Sadhu Sundar Singh', Lewis Legacy 69, Summer 1996 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

'Mark Twain and George MacDonald: the Salty and the Sweet', The Mark Twain Journal 30/2, 1992 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

LINKLATER, MAGNUS: 'Them and Us: Freedom Songs', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

LITTLE, J.I.: 'Popular Voices in Print: the Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894', International Journal of Canadian Studies, Fall 1995

LIVESAY, DANIEL: 'Extended Families: Mixed-Race Children and the Scottish Experience, 1770-1820', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

Livesey, Margot

' About Margot Livesey: A Profile', Jill Maio, Ploughshares, Fall 2002

LIVESEY, MARGOT: 'The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson', The Atlantic, November 1994

Lochhead, Liz

' "Our Stoic Comedian": a review of The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden', Laurie Smith, Magma 17, Spring 2000

LYALL, RODERICK J.: 'Alexander Montgomerie and the Netherlands, 1586-89', The Glasgow Review, issue 1

LYALL, SCOTT: 'Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Identity', International Review of Scottish Studies 29, 2004

Lydgate, John

'The Poetry of Sir David Lyndsay', Nicola Royan, ScotLit 22, 2000

'Reforming Rhetoric: The Immodest Proposals of David Lyndsay', Alexander J. Cuthbert, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis', Chris Ravenhall, ScotLit 22, 2000

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MacAFEE, CAROLINE: 'The Case for Scots in the 2001 Census', an expanded version of the paper submitted to the Scottish Office in 1995

'Characteristics of Non-Standard Grammar in Scotland'

'Scots as a language of European Civilisation', the Second Angus McIntosh Lecture hosted on the Scottish Text Society website, March 2011

'A Selected Classified Bibliography of the Scots Language'

McAULEY, LOUIS KIRK: '"She Fleets, She Sails Away": The Horror of Highland Emigration to America in James MacPherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry', Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

MacCaig, Norman

' An Interview with Norman MacCaig – 1987', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2005

' "No Extra Words": The Scottish Lyric Poet Norman MacCaig', Anette Degott, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 2, 1995

'Self and Otherness in Norman MacCaig's Poetry', Dominique Delmaire, E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 2/2, 2004

McCAREY, PETER: ' Bye-Bye Bakhtin', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

McCLURE, DERRICK: '1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1400', 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

'Doric: far dis it come fae?', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Doric: fit dis it soun lik?', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

' Douglas Young and Sorley Maclean', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Goldoni in Scots', International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

Mac Colla, Fionn

'The Very Heart of Beyond: Gaelic Nationalism and the Work of Fionn Mac Colla', Iain Macdonald, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

McCRACKEN-FLESHER, CAROLINE: 'Cross-Channel Stevenson: David Balfour and the Problem of Scottish Return', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'Scotland as Science Fiction', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Scotland as Theory: Otherness and Instantiation from Mackenzie to the Last Minstrel', International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

McCUE, KIRSTEEN: 'Posing as the ultimate Scottish Songster: James Hogg's Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd or Hogg GOLD!', The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

McCULLOCH, GORDON: 'a.k.a. Thurso Berwick: Doon Amang the Eskimos', The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Them and Us: Campaigns and Causes', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

McCULLOCH, MARGERY PALMER: 'Fantasy, Reality and the Woman Question: a re-reading of William Black's fiction', ScotLit 29, 2003

'Ideology in Action: Modernism and Marxism in A Scots Quair', James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'The Novels of Neil Gunn', Laverock 1, 1995

'Women and Poetry 1972-1999: The Contemporary Scene', Irish Review 28, 2001, available on the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech website

McDERMOTT, JENNIFER R.: 'Robert Burns the Scottish Bard: Prescriptivism, Poetic Primitivism, and the Status of Scots in the Eighteenth Century', 2007, hosted on Professor Carol Percy's webpages at the University of Toronto

MacDiarmid, Hugh

'Forms of Culture in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Etika Preobrazhennavo Erosa'', Michael Whitworth, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

'Hugh MacDiarmid, Harry Lauder and Scottish Popular Culture', David Goldie, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'Hugh MacDiarmid: the Poet and the Party', John Manson, Communist History Network Newsletter, Spring 2002

'Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Identity', Scott Lyall, International Review of Scottish Studies 29, 2004

'Neighborly Hostility and Literary Creoles: The Example of Hugh MacDiarmid', Laura O'Connor, Postmodern Culture 15/2, January 2005

'The Shining Streams: a Tribute to MacDiarmid', Seamus Heaney, The Dark Horse 15, Summer 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance', Michel Byrne, ScotLit 26, 2002

MacDonald, George

' Antigravity: Matter and the Imagination in George MacDonald and Early Science Fiction', Elmar Schenke, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

' Beasts and Monsters in MacDonald's Fantasy Stories', Dieter Petzold, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'Beautiful Terrors: George MacDonald and Lilith', David Melville, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

' Chthonic Aspects of MacDonald's Phantastes: From the Rising of the Goddess to the Anodos of Anodos', Fernando Soto, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

' A Crystal City: Sodom - Bulika - Jerusalem', Karl Kegler, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'Of "Frustrate Desire": Feminist Self-Postponement in George MacDonald's Lilith', John Pennington, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

' George MacDonald and Jean Paul: An Introduction', William Webb, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

' George MacDonald and the "Light Princess"', Bob Trexler, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society 30/3-4, March-April 1999 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

' The Limitations of Reductionist Approaches to Thomas Wingfold, Curate', John Docherty, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

'Links in a Golden Chain: C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Sadhu Sundar Singh', Kathryn Lindskoog, Lewis Legacy 69, Summer 1996 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

'Mark Twain and George MacDonald: the Salty and the Sweet', Kathryn Lindskoog, The Mark Twain Journal 30/2, 1992 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

' Nature and Fantasy', John Pridmore, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

' Pilgrims: The MacDonalds and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress', Rachel Johnson, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

' The Strengths and Weaknesses of Robert Falconer', Peter Butter, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

' Subversion and Recuperation of Gender Roles in George MacDonald's "The Day Boy and the Night Girl"', Linda Montag, The Looking-Glass, 7/1, 2003

' Waterwheels, Healing Springs and Baptismal Water: George MacDonald's Gutta Percha Willie: The Working Genius', Michael Düring, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

'Wilfrid Cumbermede: a Novel in the Context of European Symbolism', Adelheid Kegler, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

MACDONALD, IAIN: 'The Very Heart of Beyond: Gaelic Nationalism and the Work of Fionn Mac Colla', Iain Macdonald, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

McDONALD, JAN: '"Is it not possible to have a Poem made out of Theatre?" — an assessment of the dramas and dramaturgy of Joan Ure', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

MACDONALD, KIRSTY: 'Scottish Gothic: towards a definition', The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

MacDONALD, MURDO: 'The Uneasiness Inherent in Culture: A Note on Michael Visocchi's Memorial to the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

MacDOUGALL, CARL: 'A Writer's Manifesto', given at the launch of the Parliamentary Cross-Party Group for Scottish Writing and Publishing, 7 June 2005

McEWEN, AILEEN: 'Why Scots in Schools?', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

McGAVOCK, KAREN: '"Houdinizing" Peter Pan: the Magical Exploits of J.M. Barrie and Harry Houdini', e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

MacGILLIVRAY, ALAN: 'The Jewel on the Doorstep: The Place of Scottish Literature in Schools', published on the ASLS website.

'Land of Brave Men: Scottish Poetry of the First World War', Laverock 3, 1997

'Natural Loyalties: the work of William McIlvanney', Laverock 1, 1995

'"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999", ScotLit 21, 1999

'Science Fiction', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'The Worlds of Iain Banks', Laverock 2, 1996

McGINLAY, KEVIN J.: 'Reading the Texts of Henryson's Fables', The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

McGONIGAL, JAMES: 'Multilingual Poetries Lost and Found', ScotLit 32, 2005

'Recovering the Divan: Structure in Edwin Morgan's Long Poem', PN Review 194, vol. 36 no. 6, July-August 2010

McGrath, John

' Blood Red Roses: John McGrath and Lukacsian Realism', Stephen Lacey, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland', Randall Stevenson, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil: Political Theatre and the Case Against Television Naturalism', Robin Nelson, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' John McGrath and the Dialogues of Television Studies', Jonathan Bignell, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

' Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer', Olga Taxidou, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

McGUGAN, IRENE: 'Scots in the 21^st Century', from a paper delivered at a symposium on Language and Politics, Belfast, August 2001, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

McIlvanney, William

'The Dark Threads of Tartan Noir', Carole E. Barrowman, originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 24, 2004, available on Carole Barrowman's website

' The Decentring of Docherty: The Scotsman in Contemporary Drama', David Pattie, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

'Natural Loyalties: the work of William McIlvanney', Alan MacGillivray, Laverock 1, 1995

'William McIlvanney's Laidlaw Novels', Beth Dickson, Laverock 2, 1996

'White Men on Their Backs: the Representation of the White Male as Victim in William McIlvanney's Docherty and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares', Carole Jones, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

MCKAY, JOHN: 'The Banal Daily Drudge: Telling Stories in Scotland', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Mackay Brown, George

' "Finished Fragrance": The Poems of George Mackay Brown', Douglas Dunn, Poetry Nation 2, 1974

' George Mackay Brown', Rob Spence, published on the George Mackay Brown website

' George Mackay Brown: European Poet?', Sabina Schmid, Eurozine, April 1999

'George Mackay Brown: a Hero's Journey', Sue Tordoff, published on the George Mackay Brown website

' Greenness in Every Line: the drama of George Mackay Brown', Donald Campbell, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'The Looms of History in George Mackay Brown's Literary Landscape', J. Linden Bicket, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Names Was made To Be Spoke: Commemoration in the Poems of Glyn Wright and George Mackay Brown', Sheenagh Pugh, published on the George Mackay Brown website

MacKINNON, KENNETH: ' A Century on the Census: Gaelic in Twentieth Century Focus', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

MacLACHLAN, CHRISTOPHER: 'A Teller of Tales: Further Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped', Christopher MacLachlan, ScotLit 38/39, Spring 2010

MacLaverty, Bernard

'"The Same Sound But With a Different Meaning": Music, Repetition and Identity in Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes', Gerry Smyth, Éire-Ireland, Fall/Winter, 2002

McLean, Duncan

'Duncan McLean: Scottish Writer, Alexander Laurence, 13, May 2001

MacLean, Sorley

' Douglas Young and Sorley Maclean', Derrick McClure, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance', Michel Byrne, ScotLit 26, 2002

McLEMAN-CARNIE, JANETTE: 'Sir Walter Scott and the French Press: Paris 1826', International Review of Scottish Studies 25, 2000

MacLennan, Hugh

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', Uwe Zagratzki, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

MacLEOD, DAWN: 'R.L.S. in Perthshire', Contemporary Review, November 1994

Macleod, Fiona - see Sharp, William

MacLeod, Ken

'Anarchies, States and Utopias: an Interview with Ken MacLeod', Jesse Walker, Reason, November 2000

'The Future Will Happen Here Too', Ken MacLeod, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Tomorrow Lies in Ambush: a conversation with Ken MacLeod', ONE Magazine, 27 November 2008

MacLEOD, KEN: 'The Future Will Happen Here Too', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

MacLEOD, MORAG: 'Them and Us: Gaelic Political Song', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

McLEOD, WILSON: 'Gaelic in the New Scotland: Politics, Rhetoric and Public Discourse', Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Summer 2001 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' A' Ghàidhlig Anns an 21mh Linn: Sùil Air Adhart', Léachtaí Cholm Cille 31, 2001

' Language Planning as Regional Development? The Growth of the Gaelic Economy', Scottish Affairs 38, Winter 2002

' Official Gaelic: Problems in the Translation of Public Documents', Scottish Language 19, 2000

' Official Status for Gaelic: Prospects and Problems', Scottish Affairs 21, Autumn 1997

' Scotland's Languages in Scotland's Parliament', Scottish Affairs 24, Summer 1998

MacMAHON, DEIRDRE: 'Scotland at the Smithsonian: Beyond the Cultural Cringe?', Scottish Affairs 47, Spring 2004

Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Alasdair

' Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's Nature Poetry and its Sources', Derick S. Thomson, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

McNaughton, Janet

' An Earthly Knight and Fire and Hemlock: Two "Tam Lin" Retellings', Kallie George, The Looking-Glass, 11/1, 2007

MacNeacail, Aonghas

'An Interview with Aonghas MacNeacail – 1994', Robert Mullally, Textualities, 2006

McNEILL, DOUGAL:

'Is life beautiful? Narrative Uncertainty and 'Literary anti-Trotskyism' in Trainspotting', International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

McNeillie, John

' John McNeillie's Wigtown Ploughman', Rosemary Baker, Textualities, 2005

Macpherson, Ian

'Ian Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster', Timothy C. Baker, International Review of Scottish Studies 33, 2008

MacPherson, James

' Authorizing Ossian', Jack Lynch, delivered at MWASECS, Minneapolis, 5 October 1995 Journal of American Folklore, Fall 2001

'Ossian, Sonority and the Celtic Twilight in Geddes' Circle', Norman Shaw, Journal of Generalism and Civics VI, August 2005

'"She Fleets, She Sails Away": The Horror of Highland Emigration to America in James MacPherson's Fragments of Ancient Poetry', Louis Kirk McAuley, Fourth Symbiosis Conference: "Across the Great Divide" April 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

MacRAE, ALASDAIR D.F.: 'Remembering Iain Crichton Smith', The Dark Horse 8, Autumn 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

McVICAR, EWAN: 'We'll Ne'er Forget the People: Notes on the Nature of Scottish Political Song', published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

MAIO, JILL: 'About Margot Livesey: A Profile', Ploughshares, Fall 2002

MACK, DOUGLAS S.: ' James Hogg in 2000 and Beyond', Romanticism on the Net 19, August 2000

MAGUIRE, TOM: 'Still Cool for Cats? The Life and Times of Wildcat Stage Productions', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

Maitland, Richard

'The Poems of Richard Maitland', Ralph Stewart, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

The Makars

'Revisiting the Makars', Felicity Riddy, the First Angus McIntosh Lecture hosted on the Scottish Text Society website, January 2008

MALEY, WILLY: 'History's Mandate: Alasdair Gray and the Art of Independence', The Glasgow Review, issue 3

'Literature and Diversity: Border Crossing: New Scottish Writing',published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Prime Scene Investigation: Muriel Spark's Grave Humour', text of a lecture given at the Aye Write! festival, March 2009

'You'll Have Had Your Theatre: Irvine Welsh's stage play You'll Have Had Your Hole', Spike Magazine, January, 1999

MANDERSON, DAVID: 'A Letter from a Western Empire', Chapman 97, 2000

MANFREDI, CAMILLE: 'Ecosse, Littérature et Nationalisme Culturel: le Phantasme d'une Nation?', Amnis 2002 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Internal, imaginary and ontological exile in Peter Urpeth's Far Inland (2006)', Études Écossaises 13, 2010

'La septième solitude: Everything You Need, ou le voyage en Hyperborée d' A.L. Kennedy', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

MANNING, SUSAN: 'Scotland and America', The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

MANSON, JOHN: 'Hugh MacDiarmid: the Poet and the Party', Communist History Network Newsletter, Spring 2002

MANSON, PETER: ' David Kinloch's Paris Forfar', on the Freebase Accordion website

' Gael Turnbull's For Whose Delight', on the Freebase Accordion website

MANTEL, HILARY: 'What He Could Bear: a review of A Lie About My Father', London Review of Books, vol. 28 no. 5, 9 March 2006

MARTÍNEZ, MARIO DÍAZ: 'Reconstructing the Non-Existent: Levels of Self-Reference in Lanark', Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 8 (1995), available on the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

MATHISON, HAMISH: 'Robert Burns and Tradition', November 2007, hosted on the ASLS website

MATURANA, MARIA DEL CORAL CALVO: 'Jackie Kay's Representation of "The Broons": Scotland's Happy Family', e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Medicine

'"Death and Doctor Hornbook" by Robert Burns: A view from medical history', Malcolm Nicolson, Medical Humanities 36, June 2010 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Mr Placebo d'Isabel Wright: de l'art de l'illusion et de l'expérimentation en un "théâtre d'opérations"', Danièle Berton, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Tom Hubbard, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

MEEK, DONALD E.: ' The Death of Diarmaid in Scottish and Irish Tradition', Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'The Gaelic Literature of Argyll', Laverock 3, 1997

Meek, James

'Dynamite for Cologne: a review of The People's Act of Love', Michael Wood, London Review of Books, vol. 27 no. 14, 21 July 2005

'An Interview with James Meek', David Ramos Fernandes, The Barcelona Review 51, January-February 2006

'The People's Act of Love: author James Meek in interview', Andrew Lawless, Three Monkeys Online, September 2005

'Reason, Justice, Cannibalism: utopian themes in the fiction of James Meek', David Leishman, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

MELVILLE, DAVID: 'Beautiful Terrors: George MacDonald and Lilith', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

MENNETEAU, PATRICK: '"David Hume et l'essor du modèle scientifique au XVIIIe siècle dans les Dialogues sur la religion naturelle', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

MENZIES, DAVID: 'Salute to an Adventurer', ScotLit 35, 2007

MICHAELSON, GREG: 'When Naomi Met Doris', Textualities, 2005

MICHIE, JAMES: 'Doric Awa in the Mearns', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

MILLER, GAVIN: 'Scottish science fiction: writing Scottish literature back into history', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

MILLER, KEI: '"But in Glasgow, There are Plantains"', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

MILNE, DREW: ' "Adorno's Hut": Ian Hamilton Finlay's Neoclassical Rearmament Programme', Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

MILTON, COLIN: 'A Sough o' War: The Great War in the Poetry of North-East Scotland', taken from Northern Visions (Tuckwell Press, 1985, ed. David Hewitt), published on the Elphinstone Kist website

Miller, Hugh

'Hugh Miller, presbytérianisme et débats évolutionnistes en Écosse au XIXe siècle', Claire Puglisi-Kaczmarek, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

Mitchell, James Leslie

'Spartacus', Ian Campbell, James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

Mitchison, Naomi

' An Interview with Naomi Mitchison', Raymond H. Thompson, on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

' When Naomi Met Doris', Greg Michaelson, Textualities, 2005

MONTAG, LINDA: 'Subversion and Recuperation of Gender Roles in George MacDonald's "The Day Boy and the Night Girl"', The Looking-Glass, 7/1, 2003

Montgomerie, Alexander

'Alexander Montgomerie and the Netherlands, 1586-89', Roderick J Lyall, The Glasgow Review, issue 1

Moon, Lorna

'The Far Side of Lorna Moon', Glenda Norquay, ScotLit 27, 2002

Morgan, Edwin

'Computer Error: Voices and Translations in Edwin Morgan's Science Fiction Poetry', Russell Jones, Forum 11, Autumn 2010

'Doing Something Uncustomary: Edwin Morgan and Attila József', Tom Hubbard, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'The Driving Spirit of Morgan', Tom Pow, New Statesman, May 15, 2000

'Edwin Morgan, 1920-2010: a eulogy', George Reid, ScotLit 40, Winter 2010

'Edwin Morgan in Conversation', Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Horse 5, Summer 1997 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Entreamor: a Poesia Amorosa de Edwin Morgan', Virna Teixeira, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

' Glasgow Revisitado: Edwin Morgan e Sua Cidade Natal', Claudia E. Kraszkiewicz, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

' Glasgow Revisited: Edwin Morgan and His Native City', Claudia E. Kraszkiewicz, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

' De Glasgow a Saturno: na Trajetória de Edwin Morgan', Virna Teixeira, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

'The Milk of Space: Edwin Morgan's science fiction poems', Hamish Whyte, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'New Currency or Old? "The Coin", by Edwin Morgan', Gavin Wallace, The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

'"Now You See It, Now You Don't": the Love Poetry of Edwin Morgan', Christopher Whyte, The Glasgow Review, issue 2

' Os Emergentes de Edwin Morgan', Paulo de Toledo, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

' O Segredo de um Mundo Conhecido', Marcia Roque, Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

'Recovering the Divan: Structure in Edwin Morgan's Long Poem', James McGonigal, PN Review 194, vol. 36 no. 6, July-August 2010

' Some Comments on "The Computer's First Code Poem" by Machine Employed by Mr Edwin Morgan', John Kease, Poetry Nation 2, 1974

MORGAN, EDWIN: 'The Contribution of Iain Crichton Smith', ScotLit 23, 2000

'Scottish Drama: an overview', ScotLit 20, 1999

MORRIS, MICHAEL: 'Joseph Knight: Scotland and the Black Atlantic', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

MORRISON, ROBERT: ' Blackwood's Berserker: John Wilson and the Language of Extremity', Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

MORUSIEWICZ, AGNIESZKA: 'Bodies that Bleed: Sex as Fiction in Janice Galloway's Blood', published on the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health website
MOSS, SARAH: 'Romanticism on Ice: Coleridge, Hogg and the Eighteenth-Century Missions to Greenland', Romanticism on the Net 45, February 2007

Muir, Edwin

'"Between the tiger's paws": Scotland, Czechoslovakia and the Poetry of Edwin Muir', Richard K Cross, Modern Age 50/3, Summer 2008

'Scotland - the Event: or, Theory after Muir', Matthew Wickman, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

MULLALLY, ROBERT: 'An Interview with Aonghas MacNeacail – 1994', Textualities, 2006

MULLEN, GINGER: 'Transformations of "Tam Lin": an analysis of folk-tale picture books', The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

Multiculturalism - see Diversity, Scottish Identity

Munro, Alice

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', Uwe Zagratzki, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

Munro, Hector Hugh

'A Hundred Years of Saki', Adam Frost, Contemporary Review, December 1999

'Saki's Engagement with Evolution, Naturalism and Determinism', Nooshin Elahipanah, Postgraduate English 9, March 2004

Munro, Neil

'The Ell-Wand and the Sword: The Historical Fiction of Neil Munro', Ronald Renton, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'Not the Kailyard...', Ian Campbell, ParaGraphs issue 2, 2002

Munro, Rona

'Making them Bold and Breaking the Mould: Rona Munro's Bold Girls', Douglas Gifford, Laverock 2, 1996

MURRAY, ISOBEL: 'Gibbon's Chris: a Celebration with some Reservations', James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Self', Laverock 3, 1997

'Robin Jenkins' Fiction', Laverock 2, 1996)

'Music, Above All: a Response to the Essay by Jon Corelis', Iain Crichton Smith, Eurozine, April 1999

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NARAYANAN, VIVEK: ' Wandering the Planet: a review of W.N. Herbert's The Big Bumper Book of Troy', Perihelion, Vol III, issue 8, 2003

Neill, William

'One Piece of a Triptych: William Neill's Poetry in English', Gerry Cambridge, The Dark Horse 12/13, Winter 2001–2002 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

NEILSON, ANDREW: '"History in a New Scheme": a review of Jizzen by Kathleen Jamie', Magma 16, Winter 2000

NELSON, ROBIN: 'The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black Black Oil: Political Theatre and the Case Against Television Naturalism', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

NEWTON, MICHAEL: '"Becoming Cold-Hearted like the Gentiles Around Them": Scottish Gaelic in the United States 1872–1912', e-Keltoi, vol. 2

' Border Disputes: Gaelic Cultural Identity and Internaction in the Lennox and Menteith', Celtic Cultural Studies, 2000

'Jacobite Past, Loyalist Present', e-Keltoi, vol. 5

'My Bard is in the Highlands: Burns 2009 and a National Scottish Literature', The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'"This Could Have Been Mine": Scottish Gaelic Learners in North America', e-Keltoi, vol. 1

NICOLAISEN, W.F.H.: ' Gaelic & Scots 1300-1600: Some Place-Name Evidence', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (486KB - includes graphics)

NICOLL, LAURENCE: 'In Place of Dialectics: Freedom and Contingency in Russian and Scottish Fiction', Laurence Nicoll, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

NICOLSON, MALCOLM: '"Death and Doctor Hornbook" by Robert Burns: A view from medical history', Medical Humanities 36, June 2010 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Noctes Ambrosianae - see Blackwoods's Magazine

NORQUAY, GLENDA: 'The Far Side of Lorna Moon', ScotLit 27, 2002

'An Interview with Alasdair Gray', with Carol Anderson, Cencrastus, January 1983 (transcript on Alasdair Gray's website)

North, Christopher - see Wilson, John

NORTHCROFT, DAVID: 'In and Out of the Classroom: That's the Way the Doric Goes...', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

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O'CONNOR, LAURA: 'Neighborly Hostility and Literary Creoles: The Example of Hugh MacDiarmid',Postmodern Culture 15/2, January 2005

O'HAGAN, ANDREW: 'In His Hot Head: a review of Robert Louis Stevenson: a biography by Claire Harman', London Review of Books, vol. 27 no. 4, 17 February 2005

OLIVER, JAMES: 'Scottish Gaelic Identities: Contexts and Contingencies', Scottish Affairs 51, Spring 2005

Opera - see Song

Ossian - see MacPherson, James

Owens, Agnes

'Giving "people like that" a Voice: a Conversation with Agnes Owens', Jane Gray, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

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PALMER, CHRISTOPHER: 'Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks', Science Fiction Studies 77, March 1999

PARKINSON, DAVID J: ' "The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis Lyfe" and the Survival of Scottish Poetry', Early Modern Literary Studies 9/1, May 2003

Paterson, Don

'Nothing, in Other Words: the Poetry of Don Paterson', Timothy Donnelly, Verse, June 2004

PATTIE, DAVID: 'The Decentring of Docherty: The Scotsman in Contemporary Drama', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

PENNINGTON, JOHN: 'Of "Frustrate Desire": Feminist Self-Postponement in George MacDonald's Lilith', John Pennington, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 21, 2002

PETRIE, ELAINE: 'Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads?', Laverock 3, 1997

PETZOLD, DIETER: 'Beasts and Monsters in MacDonald's Fantasy Stories', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

PHILLIP, IAN: 'Blurring the Edges: Fantasy, Reality and the Fantastical Realism of Alasdair Gray', undergraduate dissertation, 1997, available on the Inside the Box website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

PITTIN-HÉDON, MARIE-ODILE: '"Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior": la transgression chez Iain Banks et Irvine Welsh', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

PITTOCK, MURRAY: 'Jacobitism in History', Murray Pittock, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

Politics

'a.k.a. Thurso Berwick: Doon Amang the Eskimos', Gordon McCulloch, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Bring Me the Head of Irvine Welsh! Fiction and Politics in Modern Scotland', Christopher Harvie, 14 May 2003, published on Tübingen University's Intelligent Mr Toad website [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Coalescence and the fiction of Iain Banks', David Leishman, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Hugh MacDiarmid: the Poet and the Party', John Manson, Communist History Network Newsletter, Spring 2002

'"Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth" ou le réalisme utopique de David Hume', Gilles Robel, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'Literature and Politics: A Parcel of Rogues', James Robertson, published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Power to the singers: Scots, English, politics and policies', Marina Dossena, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'A Shrinking Highlands: Neil Gunn, Nationalism and the "World Republic of Letters"', Ryan D. Shirey, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

'Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Isle of Voices": the stakes of modernity in the late 19th century Pacific', Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega, paper presented at the 2nd Symposium on French Research in the Pacific [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Them and Us: All Faiths and None', Ted Cowan, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Campaigns and Causes', Gordon McCulloch, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Freedom Songs', Magnus Linklater, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Gaelic Political Song', Morag MacLeod, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Jacobite Song', Andy Hunter, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Land', Joni Buchanan, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' Them and Us: Reflections from Janey Buchan', Janey Buchan, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

' We'll Ne'er Forget the People: Notes on the Nature of Scottish Political Song', Ewan McVicar, published on the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Political Song website

'You Can't Get There From Here: Devolution and Scottish Literary History', Alex Thomson, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

'The Very Heart of Beyond: Gaelic Nationalism and the Work of Fionn Mac Colla', Iain Macdonald, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

PORTER, JAMES: 'The Folklore of Northern Scotland: Five Discourses on Cultural Representation', Folklore, 1998

POW, TOM: 'The Driving Spirit of Morgan', New Statesman, May 15, 2000

PRESS, JOY: 'Unthanksgiving: Lanark – a review', The Village Voice, November 27–December 3, 2002

PRIDMORE, JOHN: 'Nature and Fantasy', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

Pringle, Thomas

'Thomas Pringle and the "Hottentots"', Damian Shaw, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

Pryde, James

'James Pryde; the Edgar Allan Poe of Painting', Louise Welsh, The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

PUGH, SHEENAGH: ' Names Was made To Be Spoke: Commemoration in the Poems of Glyn Wright and George Mackay Brown', published on the George Mackay Brown website

PUGLISI-KACZMAREK, CLAIRE: 'Hugh Miller, presbytérianisme et débats évolutionnistes en Écosse au XIXe siècle', Études Écossaises 12, 2009

PURINTON, MARJEAN D.: ' Science Fiction and Techno-Gothic Drama: Romantic Playwrights Joanna Baillie and Jane Scott', Romanticism on the Net 21, February 2001

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QUICK, IAN: ' The Scots Element in the Gaelic Vocabulary of Domestic Furnishings and Utensils', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (313KB - includes graphics)

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RAE, ROBERT: 'Disability, Invisibility and Theatre: Which Nation are we Staging?', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/1, 2001

RAMAGE, JOHN: 'Meg Dods – Before the Curtain' (with Barbara Bell), International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

' Scots and Welsh: Theatrical Translation and Theatrical Languages' (with Ian Brown and Ceri Sherlock), International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

RAVENHALL, CHRIS: 'Sir David Lyndsay's Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis', ScotLit 22, 2000

'Re-Establishing Complexities: Researching and Teaching Scottish Literature Inside/Outside Scotland', Carla Sassi, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

REID, GEORGE: 'Edwin Morgan, 1920-2010: a eulogy', ScotLit 40, Winter 2010

REITEMEIER, FRAUKE: '"Woefully Deficient in Knowledge of Costume and Manners": Scott's English Predecessors', Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 11, 2001

RENFREW, ALASTAIR: ' Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

RENTON, JENNIE: 'Christopher Brookmyre in Conversation', Textualities, 16 March 2005

' Death and Literature: a conversation between Lin Anderson and Louise Welsh', Textualities, 2006

' Glasgow Dragon: an interview with Des Dillon', Textualities, 2005

' Hellenic Hush: an interview with Paul Johnston', Textualities, 2005

' An Interview with Hamish Henderson – 1987', Textualities, 2005

' An Interview with Norman MacCaig – 1987', Textualities, 2005

' Jennie Renton interviews the playwright Gregory Burke, writer of Gagarin Way and The Straits', Textualities, 2005

RENTON, RONALD: 'The Ell-Wand and the Sword: The Historical Fiction of Neil Munro', The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'Revisionism in Irish and Scottish Literature: How far can we go?', Gerard Carruthers, in the Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre Newsletter 10, June 2006
RHIND, NEIL JAMES: 'Working Towards a Better Nation: Innovation and Entrapment in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray', International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

RIACH, ALAN: 'It's Laldie Time! Scotland and the Comic Books', The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Other than Realism: Magic and Violence in Modern Scottish Fiction and the Recent Work of Wilson Harris', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

RICHARDSON, THOMAS C.: ' Contemporary Scottish Writing', The Literary Review, Winter 2002

Richter, Jean Paul

' George MacDonald and Jean Paul: An Introduction', William Webb, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

RIDDY, FELICITY:

'Revisiting the Makars', the First Angus McIntosh Lecture hosted on the Scottish Text Society website, January 2008

RILEY, PETER: 'W.S. Graham's New Collected Poems: a Review', Jacket Magazine 26, October 2004

Ritson, Joseph

'Orality's Silence: The Other Ballad Revival', Janet Sorensen, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

ROBB, DAVID: ''Sing til the warld we loo'd': Alexander Scott's War Poems', ScotLit 35, 2007

ROBEL, GILLES: '"Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth" ou le réalisme utopique de David Hume', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

Robertson, James

'L'étrange et le miroir dans The Fanatic de James Robertson', Jean Berton, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'Joseph Knight: Scotland and the Black Atlantic', Michael Morris, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

ROBERTSON, JAMES: 'Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?', The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

'Literature and the Capital City: The Gable-Ends o' Time', published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Literature and Identity: Scotland's an Attitude of Mind', published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Literature and Politics: A Parcel of Rogues', published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

Robertson, Robin

'Robin Robertson's Swithering: a review', Andy Brown, Stride Magazine, December 2005

Robertson Smith, William

' Robert Louis Stevenson and William Robertson Smith: a Study in Contrast', Gordon Booth, published on the GKB Enterprises website

ROBINSON, CHRISTINE: 'Back to the Future: The Bruce and Relevance to the 21st Century Reader', The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

ROBINSON, GEMMA: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008 (with Carla Sassi)

ROGERS, PAT: 'Comic Maid-Servants in Swift and Smollett: the Proverbial Idiom of Humphry Clinker', Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2003

ROMÁN, GUSTAVO SAN: ' Alan Warner: The Scottish Onetti', The Barcelona Review

RONCATO, CHRISTOPHE: 'L'atopie ou le processus de désencombrement: une lecture de The Blue Road de Kenneth White', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

ROQUE, MARCIA: 'O Segredo de um Mundo Conhecido', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

Rowling, J.K.

' 1492, 1942, 1992: The Theme of Race in the Harry Potter Series', Lana Whited, The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

' The Effect of Book-Banning on Child Culture: A Close Look at the Harry Potter Series', Allyson J. Casares, The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

'Expelliarmus!: Retaliation and peaceable outcomes in the Harry Potter series', Janet Iafrate, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

' Men in Cloaks and High-Heeled Boots, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas: Witchy Masculinities in the Harry Potter Novels', Annette Wannamaker, The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

'Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan', James Washick, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

'Revealing Discrimination: Social Hierarchy and the Exclusion/Enslavement of the Other in the Harry Potter Novels', Amy M. Green, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

'The Sorcerer's Stone, Mirror of Erised, and Horcruxes: Choice, Individuality, and Authenticity in Harry Potter', Nichole LeFebvre, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

ROY, G. ROSS: 'Some Notes on Scottish Chapbooks', Scottish Literary Journal 1/1, 1974, archived on the Scottish Chapbook Project website

ROYAN, NICOLA: 'The Poetry of Sir David Lyndsay', ScotLit 22, 2000

'A Question of Truth: Barbour's Bruce, Hary's Wallace and Richard Coer de Lion', International Review of Scottish Studies 34, 2009

RUSSELL, M.: 'Spikk Proper, Noo! Teaching Dialect in Primary School' (with M. Flaws) published on the Elphinstone Kist website

Russian Literature

'In Place of Dialectics: Freedom and Contingency in Russian and Scottish Fiction', Laurence Nicoll, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

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Saadi, Suhayl

'"Ae Thoosand Tongues": Language and Identity in Psychoraag', Katherine Ashley, International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

'Conversations: Suhayl Saadi on Writing, Publishing and Identity', ONE Magazine, March 2010

'Introduction to Bandanna', Suhayl Saadi, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

'An Outward Looking Land: Suhayl Saadi and Scottish Multicultural Literature', Jonathan Henderson, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Tom Hubbard, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Voices from Modern Literary Glasgow', Maggie Scott, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

SAADI, SUHAYL: 'Gray's Anatomy: a review of Lanark', Hoolet, Autumn 2001 (article archived on Suhayl Saadi's website)

'Infinite Diversity in New Scottish Writing', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Introduction to Bandanna', The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

SABIRON, CÉLINE: 'Homecoming and Liminality in Walter Scott's Guy Mannering',Études Écossaises 13, 2010

'Le rôle de l'intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d'une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott', E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 7/2, 2010

Saki - see Munro, Hector Hugh

SAMPSON, VIRGINIA: 'James Beattie's "The Judgement of Paris": a Neglected Example of Eighteenth Century Philosophical Poetry?', Postgraduate English 12, September 2005

SASSI, CARLA: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008 (with Gemma Robinson)

'Caribbean-Scottish Relations: for a Poetics of Memory', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

' Re-Establishing Complexities: Researching and Teaching Scottish Literature Inside/Outside Scotland', International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

SCARPA, SÉBASTIEN: 'Carlyle éducateur: ou l'influence du penseur écossais sur l'œuvre de Swinburne', Études Écossaises 11, 2008

SCHENKE, ELMAR: 'Antigravity: Matter and the Imagination in George MacDonald and Early Science Fiction', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

SCHMID, SABINA: ' George Mackay Brown: European Poet?', Eurozine, April 1999

SCHMIDT, MICHAEL: 'Burns Singer', Poetry Nation 5, 1975

SCHMIDT, PETER: 'Walter Scott, Postcolonial Theory, and New South Literature', The Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 2003

Science Fiction

'Anarchies, States and Utopias: an Interview with Ken MacLeod', Jesse Walker, Reason, November 2000

' Antigravity: Matter and the Imagination in George MacDonald and Early Science Fiction', Elmar Schenke, North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'Computer Error: Voices and Translations in Edwin Morgan's Science Fiction Poetry', Russell Jones, Forum 11, Autumn 2010

'Culture Clash: Ambivalent Heroes and the Ambiguous Utopia in the Work of Iain M. Banks', David Horwich, Strange Horizons, 21 January 2002

' Culture Shock: an Interview with Iain Banks', Andrew J. Wilson, ONE Magazine, 15 February 2008

' David Lindsay: A Scottish Genius', "Booksleuth", Textualities; originally published in the Scottish Book Collector no. 1, 1987

'The Future Will Happen Here Too', Ken MacLeod, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks', Christopher Palmer, Science Fiction Studies 77, March 1999

' An Interview with Iain Banks', Andrew Wilson, Textualities, 2005

'Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities', Stuart Kelly, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'The Milk of Space: Edwin Morgan's science fiction poems', Hamish Whyte, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Poetic Licence - Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land', Gary S. Wilkinson, Vector, January 1999 (available on the Fearful Symmetry UK blog)

'Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks', Martyn Colebrook, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Science Fiction', Alan MacGillivray, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

' Science Fiction and Techno-Gothic Drama: Romantic Playwrights Joanna Baillie and Jane Scott', Marjean D. Purinton, Romanticism on the Net 21, February 2001

'Scotland as Science Fiction', Caroline McCracken-Flesher, The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

'Scottish science fiction: writing Scottish literature back into history', Gavin Miller, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'Tomorrow Lies in Ambush: a conversation with Ken MacLeod', ONE Magazine, 27 November 2008

'The Worlds of Iain Banks', Alan MacGillivray, Laverock 2, 1996

'Scotland and America', Susan Manning, The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

Scotland and the Caribbean

'"But in Glasgow, There are Plantains"', Kei Miller, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Caribbean-Scottish Passages', Gemma Robinson and Carla Sassi, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Caribbean-Scottish Relations: for a Poetics of Memory', Carla Sassi, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'"Ev'ry Heart can Feel": Scottish Poetic Responses to Slavery in the West Indies, from Blair to Burns', Corey E. Andrews, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Extended Families: Mixed-Race Children and the Scottish Experience, 1770-1820', Daniel Livesay, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Joseph Knight: Scotland and the Black Atlantic', Michael Morris, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Mrs Carmichael: A Scotswoman in the West Indies, 1820-1826', Karina Williamson, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Other than Realism: Magic and Violence in Modern Scottish Fiction and the Recent Work of Wilson Harris', Alan Riach, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'The Uneasiness Inherent in Culture: A Note on Michael Visocchi's Memorial to the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade', Murdo Macdonald, International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

'Scotland at the Smithsonian: Beyond the Cultural Cringe?', Deirdre MacMahon, Scottish Affairs 47, Spring 2004

Scots Language

'"Ae Thoosand Tongues": Language and Identity in Psychoraag', Katherine Ashley, International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

' The Baird Letters', Graeme Davis, Journal of Language and Linguistics 1/1, Spring 2002

'The Case for Scots in the 2001 Census', Caroline Macafee, an expanded version of the paper submitted to the Scottish Office in 1995

'Characteristics of Non-Standard Grammar in Scotland', Caroline Macafee

'The Current State of Scots', John Corbett, submitted to a Scottish Executive Committee investigating Scots Language Provision, 2001

'Doric Awa in the Mearns', James Michie, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Doric Drama', Charles Barron, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Doric: far dis it come fae?', Derrick McClure, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Doric: fit dis it soun lik?', Derrick McClure, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Ear-Rhyme, Eye-Rhyme and Traditional Rhyme: English and Scots in Robert Burns's Brigs of Ayr', Jeremy J Smith, The Glasgow Review, issue 4

'The Etymology and Meanings of Eldritch', Alaric Hall, Scottish Language 26, 2007; available through the White Rose Research Online website

' Gaelic & Scots 1300-1600: Some Place-Name Evidence', W.F.H. Nicolaisen, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (486KB - includes graphics)

'Goldoni in Scots', J. Derrick McClure, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'In and Out of the Classroom: That's the Way the Doric Goes...', David Northcroft, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

' The Kirk and the Leid', Gordon Booth, published on the GKB Enterprises website

' Klytemnestra's Bairns: Adapting Aeschylus into Scots', Bill Dunlop, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'Language Issues in Studying Burns for Revised Higher: Bard tae Waur?', John Hodgart, Laverock 3, 1997

'Language Matters', Graeme Trousdale, ScotLit 31, 2004

'Lice, Mice, Bumclocks, Grubs: The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burns', Fiona Stafford, International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

'Literary Language and Scottish Identity', John Corbett, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Lummie', Jim Alison, Laverock 3, 1997

'Multilingual Poetries Lost and Found', James McGonigal, ScotLit 32, 2005

'Northeast Scots in Fiction', Douglas Young, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Power to the singers: Scots, English, politics and policies', Marina Dossena, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

' Scotland's Languages in Scotland's Parliament', Wilson McLeod, Scottish Affairs 24, Summer 1998

'Scots - a Language for Our Time?', Fiona Douglas, The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Scots as a language of European Civilisation', Caroline Macafee, the Second Angus McIntosh Lecture hosted on the Scottish Text Society website, March 2011

'The Scots Continuum and Descriptive Linguistics', Maggie Scott, The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

' The Scots Element in the Gaelic Vocabulary of Domestic Furnishings and Utensils', Ian Quick, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988 (313KB - includes graphics)

'Scots in the 21^st Century', Irene McGugan, from a paper delivered at a symposium on Language and Politics, Belfast, August 2001, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Scots in the Secondary School', David Johnston, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'Scots: Practical Approaches', John Corbett, ScotLit 25, 2001

' Scots and Welsh: Theatrical Translation and Theatrical Languages', Ian Brown, John Ramage and Ceri Sherlock, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

'A Selected Classified Bibliography of the Scots Language': compiled by Caroline Macafee, maintained by Marina Dossena

' The Significance of Scots and its Accents in Contemporary Scottish Literature, and its reflection in Translation', Aniela Korzeniowska, Literature, 49(5), 2007

'Spikk Proper, Noo! Teaching Dialect in Primary School', M. Russell & M. Flaws, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

' Trainspotting in Montreal: the dramatic version', Martin Bowman, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

' The Use of Obsolete Scots Vocabulary in Modern Scottish Plays', Katja Lenz, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'Use it or lose it', Matthew Fitt, The Bottle Imp 7, Spring 2010

'Voices from Modern Literary Glasgow', Maggie Scott, The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

'When Antiquarians Looked at the Thistle: Late Modern Views of Scotland's Linguistic Heritage', Marina Dossena, The Bottle Imp 4, Fall 2008

'Why Scots in Schools?', Aileen McEwen, published on the Elphinstone Kist website

'A Writer's Manifesto', Carl MacDougall, given at the launch of the Parliamentary Cross-Party Group for Scottish Writing and Publishing, 7 June 2005

Scott, Alexander

''Sing til the warld we loo'd': Alexander Scott's War Poems', David Robb, ScotLit 35, 2007

Scott, Jane

' Science Fiction and Techno-Gothic Drama: Romantic Playwrights Joanna Baillie and Jane Scott', Marjean D. Purinton, Romanticism on the Net 21, February 2001

SCOTT, MAGGIE: 'The Scots Continuum and Descriptive Linguistics', The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

'Voices from Modern Literary Glasgow', The Bottle Imp 3, Spring 2008

SCOTT, TOM: 'Henrysoun: The Fables', Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

'Henrysoun: The Minor Poems', Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

'Henrysoun: The Narrative Tragedies', Tom Scott on Robert Henryson, hosted by the Robert Henryson Society website

Scott, Sir Walter

'Adjusting the Borders of Self: Sir Walter Scott's The Two Drovers', Zahra A Hussein Ali, Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2001

' Darsie Latimer's "Little Solidity", or the Case for Homosexuality in Scott's Redgauntlet', Rick Incorvati, Romanticism on the Net 36-37, November 2004-February 2005

' The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley', Lidia Garbin, Romanticism on the Net 6, May 1997

'Homecoming and Liminality in Walter Scott's Guy Mannering', Céline Sabiron, Études Écossaises 13, 2010

' Meg Dods – Before the Curtain', Barbara Bell and John Ramage, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

'Le rôle de l'intertexte et du palimpseste dans la création d'une Écosse mythique dans Waverley et Rob Roy de Walter Scott', Céline Sabiron, E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 7/2, 2010

'Romantic Masculinity in Edgeworth's Ennui and Scott's Marmion: In Itself a Border Story', Irene A Beesemyer, Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 1999

'Scott, Opera and the Italian Journey', Douglas Gifford, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Sir Walter Scott and the French Press: Paris 1826', Janette McLeman-Carnie, International Review of Scottish Studies 25, 2000

'Walter Scott, Literary History, and the "Expressive" Tenets of Waverley Criticism', Edward C. Smith III, Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2000

'Walter Scott, Postcolonial Theory, and New South Literature', Peter Schmidt, The Mississippi Quarterly, Fall 2003

'Will Ye No' Come Back Again? Whatever happened to Sir Walter Scott?', R.D. Kernohan, Contemporary Review, May 1993

'"Woefully Deficient in Knowledge of Costume and Manners": Scott's English Predecessors', Frauke Reitemeier, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English 11, 2001

Scottish Diaspora, The

'A New Perspective on the Scottish Diaspora', Leith Davis, The Bottle Imp 5, Spring 2009

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', Uwe Zagratzki, International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

'Thomas Pringle and the "Hottentots"', Damian Shaw, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

Scottish Enlightenment, The

'"I just tell the bloody truth, as I see it": James Kelman's A Disaffection, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Melancholy Knowledge', Aaron Kelly, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

' Northern Lights: How Modern Life Emerged from Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh', David Denby, The New Yorker, 11 October 2004

Scottish Identity

'"Ae Thoosand Tongues": Language and Identity in Psychoraag', Katherine Ashley, International Review of Scottish Studies 36, 2011

'An Émigré at Home', Bashabi Fraser, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'Gaeldom and multi-ethnic Scotland: A long history and a short story', Silke Stroh, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'Hugh MacDiarmid and Scottish Identity', Scott Lyall, International Review of Scottish Studies 29, 2004

'Infinite Diversity in New Scottish Writing', Suhayl Saadi, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Literary Language and Scottish Identity', John Corbett, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

'Literature and Identity: Scotland's an Attitude of Mind', James Robertson, published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Scottishness in the Tartan Army', Joseph M Bradley, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'An Outward Looking Land: Suhayl Saadi and Scottish Multicultural Literature', Jonathan Henderson, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

Scottish Literature in Education

'The Jewel on the Doorstep: The Place of Scottish Literature in Schools', Alan MacGillivray, published on the ASLS website.

Scottish Literature: Historical

'1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1400', Derrick McClure, 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

'1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1600', Ronald D.S. Jack, 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

'1000 Years of Scottish Literature: 1800', Tom Hubbard, 1000 Years of Scottish Literature, 18 November 2000

Scottish Literature in the Media

'The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media', Andrew Crumey, published in The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature, ed. Berthold Schoene (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Scottish Romanticism

'Scottish Romanticism, World Literature', Ian Duncan, The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

SCROGGINS, MARK: 'The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Modernist Fragment, and the Neo-classical Sublime', Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

Second World War

''Sing til the warld we loo'd': Alexander Scott's War Poems', David Robb, ScotLit 35, 2007

SELF, WILL: 'An Introduction to Alasdair Gray: Critical Introductions and a Bibliography', on the official Will Self website (originally published in the British Library edition of Essays on Alasdair Gray, edited by Phil Moores)

SELLIN, BERNARD: 'Exile and Expatriates in Robin Jenkins' Novels', Études Écossaises 13, 2010

Sempill, Robert

' "The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis Lyfe" and the Survival of Scottish Poetry', David J Parkinson, Early Modern Literary Studies 9/1, May 2003

SEVERIN, LAURA:

'An Interview with Valerie Gillies', Free Verse 15, Winter 2008

Sharp, William

'Ossian, Sonority and the Celtic Twilight in Geddes' Circle', Norman Shaw, Journal of Generalism and Civics VI, August 2005

SHAW, DAMIAN: 'Thomas Pringle and the "Hottentots"', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

SHAW, NORMAN: 'Ossian, Sonority and the Celtic Twilight in Geddes' Circle', Journal of Generalism and Civics VI, August 2005

Shelley, Mary

' The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley', Lidia Garbin, Romanticism on the Net 6, May 1997

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

' "Shelley Himself in Petticoats": Joanna Baillie's Orra and Non-Violent Masculinity as Remorse in The Cenci', Stephen Hancock, Romanticism on the Net 31, August 2003

SHERLOCK, CERI: 'Scots and Welsh: Theatrical Translation and Theatrical Languages' (with Ian Brown and John Ramage), International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/2, 2000

Shetland

'Song in Shetland: a personal perspective', Anne Sinclair, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

SHEVLINN, ALEXANDER: 'Iain Crichton Smith', on the Simply Scottish website

'The Poetry of Meg Bateman', on the Simply Scottish website

SHIREY, RYAN D.: 'A Shrinking Highlands: Neil Gunn, Nationalism and the "World Republic of Letters"', International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

SIMARD, JEAN-PIERRE:

'Populaire, politique et poétique: Réévaluer la réputation du théâtre écossais', Études Écossaises 10, 2005

Simmons, Dan

'Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks', Christopher Palmer, Science Fiction Studies 77, March 1999

SINCLAIR, ANNE: 'Song in Shetland: a personal perspective', The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads?', Elaine Petrie, Laverock 3, 1997

Singer, Burns (James Hyman Singer)

'Burns Singer', Michael Schmidt, Poetry Nation 5, 1975

Singh, Sadhu Surdar

'Links in a Golden Chain: C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Sadhu Sundar Singh', Kathryn Lindskoog, Lewis Legacy 69, Summer 1996 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

SKOBLOW, JEFFREY: 'Two Talks on Burns', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

SMALL, MIKE: 'From Porridge to Pelf: Young Adam and the Mysterious Scottish Film Industry', Variant 18, Autumn 2003

Smith, Ali

'The Banal Daily Drudge: Telling Stories in Scotland', John McKay, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

SMITH, EDWARD C. III: 'Walter Scott, Literary History, and the "Expressive" Tenets of Waverley Criticism', Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 2000

Smith, Iain Crichton - see Crichton Smith, Iain

SMITH, JEREMY J.: 'Ear-Rhyme, Eye-Rhyme and Traditional Rhyme: English and Scots in Robert Burns's Brigs of Ayr', The Glasgow Review, issue 4

SMITH, LAURIE: '"Our Stoic Comedian": a review of The Book of Love by Roddy Lumsden', Magma 17, Spring 2000

Smith, William Robertson - see Robertson Smith, William

Smollett, Tobias

'Comic Maid-Servants in Swift and Smollett: the Proverbial Idiom of Humphry Clinker', Pat Rogers, Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2003

' Tobias Smollett Consults a French Physician in 1763', J.M. Forrester, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine vol. 92(5), May 1999

SMYTH, GERRY: '"The Same Sound But With a Different Meaning": Music, Repetition and Identity in Bernard MacLaverty's Grace Notes', Éire-Ireland, Fall/Winter, 2002

SNEDDON, ANDREW J.:

'"We will beat the landlords and the scenic sentimentalists": Neil M. Gunn and Landscape Discourse in the "Hydro" Debates', International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

' Some Notes on Scottish Chapbooks', G. Ross Roy, Scottish Literary Journal 1/1, 1974, archived on the Scottish Chapbook Project website

Song

'a.k.a. Thurso Berwick: Doon Amang the Eskimos', Gordon McCulloch, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Posing as the ultimate Scottish Songster: James Hogg's Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd or Hogg GOLD!', Kirsteen McCue, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Power to the singers: Scots, English, politics and policies', Marina Dossena, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Scott, Opera and the Italian Journey', Douglas Gifford, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

'Song in Shetland: a personal perspective', Anne Sinclair, The Bottle Imp 9, Spring 2011

SORENSEN, JANET: '"Belts of Gold" and "Twenty-Pounders": Robert Louis Stevenson's Textualized Economies', Criticism, Summer 2000

'Orality's Silence: The Other Ballad Revival', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

SOTO, FERNANDO: 'Chthonic Aspects of MacDonald's Phantastes: From the Rising of the Goddess to the Anodos of Anodos', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 19, 2000

SOUBIGOU, GILLES: 'The Reception of Robert Burns' poems in French Art', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

Soutar, William

' William Soutar: A Poet Who Outlived His Fame', Brian Strand, Amaze: the Cinquain Journal 4/1, Winter 2006

Spark, Muriel

' Inflamed by Sparks', Eric Dickson, Textualities, 2005

'Muriel Spark: the English novel in the 20th century', Geoffrey Heptonstall, Contemporary Review, October 1996

'Prime Scene Investigation: Muriel Spark's Grave Humour', Willy Maley, text of a lecture given at the Aye Write! festival, March 2009

SPENCE, ROB: ' George Mackay Brown', published on the George Mackay Brown website

Sport

'Scottishness in the Tartan Army', Joseph M Bradley, The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

STAFFORD, FIONA: 'Lice, Mice, Bumclocks, Grubs: The Challenge of Regional Language and the Legacy of Robert Burns', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

STAMMERS, JOHN: '"Carved on the Page": John Stammers Interviews Alison Fell', Magma 11, Winter 1997

STEFANS, BRIAN KIM: 'On Ian Hamilton Finlay', Jacket Magazine 15, December 2001

STEPHEN, DAN: 'Talking to Tom Leonard', Variant 5, Spring 1998

Steven, Kenneth C

'A Lark, Singing for the Love of the Land – Zöe King Talks to Kenneth C Steven', Zöe King, on the author's website, 2002

'Esquisse d'un paysage ontologique dans A Highland Trilogy de Kenneth Steven', Jean Berton, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

STEVENSON, JANE: ' Altus Prosator', Celtica vol 23, 1999 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Ficino in Aberdeen: The Continuing Problem of the Scottish Renaissance', (with Peter Davidson), Journal of the Northern Renaissance 1, March 2009

STEVENSON, RANDALL: ' Border Warranty: John McGrath and Scotland', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

'Home International: the Compass of Scottish Theatre Criticism', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 2/2, 2001

Stevenson, Robert Louis

'The Beach of Falesá and the Colonial Enterprise', Darren Jackson, Limina vol 6, 2000 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'"Belts of Gold" and "Twenty-Pounders": Robert Louis Stevenson's Textualized Economies', Janet Sorensen, Criticism, Summer 2000

'Cross-Channel Stevenson: David Balfour and the Problem of Scottish Return', Caroline McCracken-Flesher, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'The Dark Threads of Tartan Noir', Carole E. Barrowman, originally published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 24, 2004, available on Carole Barrowman's website

' The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson', Margot Livesey, The Atlantic, November 1994

'Frontier Creatures: The Imaginary Characters of Weir of Hermiston', Antony Hasler, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'Hyde y Olalla: las Dos Caras del Sueño', Pablo Cruz, Babar: revista de literatura infantil y juvenil, 2002

'In His Hot Head: a review of Robert Louis Stevenson: a biography by Claire Harman', Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books, vol. 27 no. 4, 17 February 2005

'Jekyll and Hyde: The Psychology of Dissociation', Nancy Gish, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

' Lived In Books', Robert Louis Abrahamson, Textualities, 2005

'Motion and Agency in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island', Christy Di Frances, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Much Ado about Handwriting: Countersigning with the Other Hand in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', Jodey Castricano, Romanticism on the Net 44, November 2006

'Press-ganging Scottish Literature? Kidnapped and the City of Literature's One Book, One Edinburgh Project', John Corbett, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'R.L.S. in Perthshire', Dawn MacLeod, Contemporary Review, November 1994

'Robert Louis Stevenson: A Major Minor Poet?', David Fergus, Textualities, 2006

' Robert Louis Stevenson and William Robertson Smith: a Study in Contrast', Gordon Booth, published on the GKB Enterprises website

'The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism and Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde', Stephen D. Arata, Criticism, Spring 1995

' Stevenson, Aristotele e la poetica delle circostanze', Vincenzo Fano, Isonomia, September 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Stevenson, Benjamin, and the Decay of Experience', Matthew Wickman, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'Stevenson's Careful Observances', Stephen Arata, Romanticism on the Net 47, August 2007

'A Teller of Tales: Further Thoughts on Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped', Christopher MacLachlan, ScotLit 38/39, Spring 2010

' "that damned old business of the war in the members": The Discourse of (In)Temperance in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', Lisa Butler, Romanticism on the Net 44, November 2006

'A Time of Terror: England's Social Condition in the Late 19th Century and the Rise of the Novel of Terror ', Chris Kirkland, Gateway, Summer 2001

' "Tra la prosa di Stevenson, il vento e l'acqua": Conversazione con Alessandro Ceni', Doriano Fasoli, published on the Riflessioni.it website, June 2005

'Tusitala and his Polish Reader', Carlo Ginzburg, Raritan 18/3, Winter 1999

'Unwritable Dwellings/Unsettled Texts: Robert Louis Stevenson's In The South Seas and the Vailima House', David Farrier, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'The Unco Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson in German Translation', Beatrix Hesse, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'Les Utopies adolescentes de Robert Louis Stevenson', Cyril Besson, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

'The Versatility of Robert Louis Stevenson', Bryan Bevan, Contemporary Review 264, 1994

'WJ and Robert Louis Stevenson: the Importance of Emotion', Jack M Barbalet, Streams of William James 3/3, 2001 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' An Interview with Mary Stewart', Raymond H. Thompson, on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

STEWART, RALPH: 'The Poems of Richard Maitland', International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

STRACHAN, ZOE: ' Queerspotting: Homosexuality in Contemporary Scottish Fiction', Spike Magazine, May, 1999

STRAND, BRIAN: ' William Soutar: A Poet Who Outlived His Fame', Amaze: the Cinquain Journal 4/1, Winter 2006

STROH, SILKE: 'Gaeldom and multi-ethnic Scotland: A long history and a short story', The Bottle Imp 10, Fall 2011

'The Study of Scottish Literature', Ian Duncan, ScotLit 28, 2003

SWEENEY-TURNER, STEVE: 'The Pastoral Celt: Images of the Gàidheal in Lowland Scots Song', Celtic Cultural Studies, 1999

Swift, Jonathan

'Comic Maid-Servants in Swift and Smollett: the Proverbial Idiom of Humphry Clinker', Pat Rogers, Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2003

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

'Carlyle éducateur: ou l'influence du penseur écossais sur l'œuvre de Swinburne', Sébastien Scarpa, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

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Tam Lin

' An Earthly Knight and Fire and Hemlock: Two "Tam Lin" Retellings', Kallie George, The Looking-Glass, 11/1, 2007

' Transformations of "Tam Lin": An Analysis of Folk-Tale Picture Books', Ginger Mullen, The Looking-Glass, 8/3, 2004

TAXIDOU, OLGA: 'Three One-Woman Epics: The Political Performer', International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/2, 2002

TAYLOR, LAUREL: ' Comparison as the Gesture Between Them: John Burnside and Jorie Graham', Postgraduate English 2, September 2000

TEIXEIRA, VIRNA: 'Entreamor: a Poesia Amorosa de Edwin Morgan', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

'De Glasgow a Saturno: na Trajetória de Edwin Morgan', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

Television - see Drama

'Thanks Courteous Wall', Jim Alison, ScotLit 33, 2005

Theory

'Brief Encounters, Long Farewells: Bakhtin and Scottish Literature', Alastair Renfrew, International Journal of Scottish Literature 1, Autumn 2006

'Bye-Bye Bakhtin', Peter McCarey, International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

'The Debt to Theory', Christopher Whyte, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007
'Modes of Marginality: Scottish Literature and the Uses of Postcolonial Theory', Liam Connell, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 23, 2003 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'Scotland as Theory: Otherness and Instantiation from Mackenzie to the Last Minstrel', Caroline McCracken-Flesher, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

'Scotland - the Event: or, Theory after Muir', Matthew Wickman, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

'Theory and Scottish Exceptionalism', Editorial, International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

THOMAS, RUTH: 'An Interview with Janice Galloway – 1989', Textualities, 2006

Thompson, Alice

'Real Gorgons or Fantastic Chimeras? Re-shaping Myth and Tradition in Alice Thompson's Justine', Monica Germanà, e-Sharp, Autumn 2003

THOMSON, ALEX: 'You Can't Get There From Here: Devolution and Scottish Literary History', International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

THOMSON, DERICK S.: ' Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair's Nature Poetry and its Sources', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

Thomson, James

'Le paradigme newtonien et les soubresauts du vivant dans The Seasons de James Thomson', Pierre Carboni, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

THOMPSON, RAYMOND H.: 'An Interview with Mary Stewart', on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

' An Interview with Naomi Mitchison', on the Interviews with Authors of Modern Arthurian Literature website

THORNTON, VALERIE: 'Workshop Writing and Beyond', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

TICHY, SUSAN: 'An Introduction to Scottish Poetry', on her Resources for Students website

de TOLEDO, PAULO: ' Os Emergentes de Edwin Morgan', Revista Critério 6, March-June 2006

TOLMIE, SARAH: 'Sacrilege, Sacrifice and John Barbour's Bruce', International Review of Scottish Studies 32, 2007

TORDOFF, SUE: 'George Mackay Brown: a Hero's Journey', published on the George Mackay Brown website

Translation

'Goldoni in Scots', J. Derrick McClure, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'Iain Banks in French: Translating “The Foreigner Within”', Olivier Demissy-Cazeilles, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'James Kelman: A Resistance to Transfer', Aniela Korzeniowska, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

' Trainspotting in Montreal: the dramatic version', Martin Bowman, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'Translating Scottish Literary Texts: A Linguistic Clover-Leaf', Jean Berton, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

'The Unco Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson in German Translation', Beatrix Hesse, International Journal of Scottish Literature 7, Autumn/Winter 2010

TREXLER, BOB: ' George MacDonald and the "Light Princess"', CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society 30/3-4, March-April 1999 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

Trocci, Alexander

' From Porridge to Pelf: Young Adam and the Mysterious Scottish Film Industry', Mike Small, Variant 18, Autumn 2003

TROTT, NICOLA Z.: ' North of the Border: Cultural Crossing in the Noctes Ambrosianae', Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

TROUSDALE, GRAEME: 'Language Matters', ScotLit 31, 2004

'Why Everybody Needs Smeddum', The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

Turnbull, Gael

' Gael Turnbull's For Whose Delight', Peter Manson, on the Freebase Accordion website

' On Gael Turnbull', Laurie Duggan, Jacket Magazine 25, February 2004

'"Take Care of the Bowels and the Brains Will Take Care of Themselves": Scotland's Doctor-Writers', Tom Hubbard, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

Twain, Mark

'Mark Twain and George MacDonald: the Salty and the Sweet', Kathryn Lindskoog, The Mark Twain Journal 30/2, 1992 (text of paper on The George MacDonald website)

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Ure, Joan

' "Is it not possible to have a Poem made out of Theatre?" — an assessment of the dramas and dramaturgy of Joan Ure', Jan McDonald, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 3/1, 2002

Urpeth, Peter

'Internal, imaginary and ontological exile in Peter Urpeth's Far Inland (2006)', Camille Manfredi, Études Écossaises 13, 2010

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VIANU, LIDIA: ' The Self-Consuming Dystopia of Age', on the Desperado Literature website, following on from an interview with Alasdair Gray

Visocchi, Michael

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WALKER, JESSE: 'Anarchies, States and Utopias: an Interview with Ken MacLeod', Reason, November 2000

WALLACE, GAVIN: 'New Currency or Old? "The Coin", by Edwin Morgan', The Bottle Imp 2, Fall 2007

Walsh, Raoul

'"You want some action for this dollar?": Gambling for the Plot in Pursued and The Master of Ballantrae', Roslyn Jolly, Sydney Studies in English 34, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

WANNAMAKER, ANNETTE: 'Men in Cloaks and High-Heeled Boots, Men Wielding Pink Umbrellas: Witchy Masculinities in the Harry Potter Novels', The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

Warner, Alan

' Alan Warner: The Scottish Onetti', Gustavo San Román, The Barcelona Review

' Queerspotting: Homosexuality in Contemporary Scottish Fiction', Zoe Strachan, Spike Magazine, May, 1999

WASHICK, JAMES: 'Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan', James Washick, The Looking-Glass, 13/3, 2009

WATSON, ALEX: 'Thirteen Ways of Glossing 'To a Haggis': Disputing the Borders of Robert Burns' Paratexts', International Journal of Scottish Literature 6, Spring/Summer 2010

WATSON, SEOSAMH: ''N Linnet Mhor: Some Linguistic Evidence from a Nineteenth Century Easter Ross Poem', Scots and Gaelic - at home and abroad, 17 November 2001, Glasgow

' On the Development of the Group -rt in Scottish Gaelic', Celtica vol 21, 1990 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

WEBB, WILLIAM: 'George MacDonald and Jean Paul: An Introduction', North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 14, 1995

'"Webs and Wabsters": Small Presses, Magazines and Websites', Robert Alan Jamieson, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

Welsh, Irvine

'From Grey Granite to Urban Grit: A Revolution in Perspectives', David Borthwick, James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon) Centenary Conference, 9 June 2001

'Is life beautiful? Narrative Uncertainty and 'Literary anti-Trotskyism' in Trainspotting', Dougal McNeill, International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

'"Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior": la transgression chez Iain Banks et Irvine Welsh', Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

' Queerspotting: Homosexuality in Contemporary Scottish Fiction', Zoe Strachan, Spike Magazine, May, 1999

'Trainspotting au théâtre: une adaption culturelle', Muriel Chan-Chu, Post-Scriptum, 3, 2004 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

' Trainspotting in Montreal: the dramatic version', Martin Bowman, International Journal of Scottish Theatre, 1/1, 2000

'What is left in between: Trainspotting, from Novel to Film', E. Guillermo Iglesias Díaz, e-Sharp 2009 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

'You'll Have Had Your Theatre: Irvine Welsh's stage play You'll Have Had Your Hole', Willy Maley, Spike Magazine, January, 1999

Welsh, Louise

' Death and Literature: a conversation between Lin Anderson and Louise Welsh', Jennie Renton, Textualities, 2006

WELSH, LOUISE:

'James Pryde; the Edgar Allan Poe of Painting', The Bottle Imp 6, Fall 2009

WILKINSON, GARY S.: 'Poetic Licence - Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land', Vector, January 1999 (available on the Fearful Symmetry UK blog)

White, Kenneth

'L'atopie ou le processus de désencombrement: une lecture de The Blue Road de Kenneth White', Christophe Roncato, Études Écossaises 11, 2008

WHITED, LANA: '1492, 1942, 1992: The Theme of Race in the Harry Potter Series', The Looking-Glass, 10/1, 2006

WHITWORTH, MICHAEL: 'Forms of Culture in Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Etika Preobrazhennavo Erosa'', International Journal of Scottish Literature 5, Autumn/Winter 2009

WHITEFORD, EILIDH: 'Immortal Memories: the mysterious case of Catherine Carswell', ScotLit 24, 2001

WHYTE, CHRISTOPER: 'The Debt to Theory', International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

' George Campbell Hay: Nationalism with a Difference', Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'"Now You See It, Now You Don't": the Love Poetry of Edwin Morgan', The Glasgow Review, issue 2

WHYTE, HAMISH: 'The Milk of Space: Edwin Morgan's science fiction poems', The Bottle Imp 8, Fall 2010

WICKMAN, MATTHEW: 'Scotland - the Event: or, Theory after Muir', International Journal of Scottish Literature 3, Autumn/Winter 2007

' Stevenson, Benjamin, and the Decay of Experience', International Journal of Scottish Literature 2, Spring/Summer 2007

WILLIAMS, FIONNUALA CARSON: 'Scottish Proverbs – "A new walk in an old field"', Folklore, 2001

WILLIAMSON, KARINA: 'Mrs Carmichael: A Scotswoman in the West Indies, 1820-1826', International Journal of Scottish Literature 4, Autumn/Winter 2008

WILSON, ANDREW: ' Culture Shock: an Interview with Iain Banks', ONE Magazine, 15 February 2008

'An Interview with Iain Banks', Textualities, 2005

WILSON, FIONA: 'From the Vibrant Margin: Literary Journals at the Scottish Writing Exhibition, Philadelphia 2006', The Bottle Imp 1, Spring 2007

Wilson, John (see also Blackwood's Magazine)

' Blackwood's Berserker: John Wilson and the Language of Extremity', Robert Morrison, Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

' North of the Border: Cultural Crossing in the Noctes Ambrosianae', Nicola Z. Trott, Romanticism on the Net 20, November 2000

WILSON, NEIL: 'Fiction Opportunities: the 11/9 Project', The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

Wilson, Robert McLiam

'Towards a subaltern aesthetics: Reassessing Postcolonial Criticism for Contemporary Northern Irish and Scottish Literatures. James Kelman and Robert McLiam Wilson's Rewriting of National Paradigms', Stefanie Lehner, e-Sharp 5, Summer 2005 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

WILSON-COSTA, KARYN: 'The Poetry of Robert Burns: "A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth"', E-rea (Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone) 4/1, 2006

'Women and Poetry 1972-1999: The Contemporary Scene', Margery Palmer McCulloch, Irish Review 28, 2001, available on the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech website

WOOD, MICHAEL: ' Dynamite for Cologne: a review of The People's Act of Love', London Review of Books, vol. 27 no. 14, 21 July 2005

WOODS, BRETT F.: 'The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet', California Literary Review, March 2007

Wordsworth, William

' Re-Visioning James Hogg: The Return of the Subject to Wordsworth's "Extempore Effusion"', Janette Currie, Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 15, Winter 2005

World Literature

'Literary Exchanges: Scotland, Europe and World Literature', Stuart Kelly, published in Discovering Scottish Literature, Scottish Book Trust, 2008 [PDF file – requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]

World War One - see First World War

World War Two - see Second World War

'Workshop Writing and Beyond', Valerie Thornton, The Shape of Texts to Come: the writing of a new Scotland, 13-14 May 2000

Wright, Glyn

' Names Was made To Be Spoke: Commemoration in the Poems of Glyn Wright and George Mackay Brown', Sheenagh Pugh, published on the George Mackay Brown website

Wright, Isabel

'Mr Placebo d'Isabel Wright: de l'art de l'illusion et de l'expérimentation en un "théâtre d'opérations"', Danièle Berton, Études Écossaises 12, 2009

'A Writer's Manifesto', Carl MacDougall, given at the launch of the Parliamentary Cross-Party Group for Scottish Writing and Publishing, 7 June 2005

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Young, Douglas

' Douglas Young and Sorley Maclean', Derrick McClure, Gaelic and Scots in Harmony, 30 June-2 July 1988

'Tails o the Comet? MacLean, Hay, Young and MacDiarmid's Renaissance', Michel Byrne, ScotLit 26, 2002

'Towards a reassessment of Douglas Young: Motivation and his Aristophanic translations', Bill Findlay, Études Écossaises 10, 2005

YOUNG, DOUGLAS: 'Northeast Scots in Fiction', published on the Elphinstone Kist website

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ZAGRATZKI, UWE:

'Ralph Connor, Hugh MacLennan and Alice Munro - Three Scottish-Canadian Authors', International Review of Scottish Studies 23, 1998

Last updated 8 February 2012.