The Concept of Caledonian Antisyzygy as It Is Manifested in Hogg's Justified Sinner and Robertson's Gideon Mack
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The Concept of Caledonian Antisyzygy as It Is Manifested in Hogg's Justified Sinner and Robertson's Gideon Mack
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This paper deals with the thematic and formal implications of the Caledonian antisyzygy, a term introduced by George Gregory Smith in his Scottish Literature, Character and Influence (1919) to describe the contradictory quality which he sees as constitutionally inherent in Scottish writing. Admitting that a clash of conflicting opposites is not a uniquely Scottish preoccupation, but insisting that it indeed is a national idiosyncrasy characteristic of the Scot, this paper applies Smith's abstract concept to specific works of literature. The literary text chosen for analysis in the first place is a seminal novel which exercises a lasting influence over Scottish writing: James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Hogg's gloomy examination of the paradoxes of Scottish Calvinism will be discussed along with James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack (2006), a curious reworking and refashioning of Hogg's tale in the context of a distinctly contemporar
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D - Article in proceedings
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AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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2011
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Language, Literature and Culture in Present-Day Context: Contemporary Research Perspectives in Anglophone PhD Studies
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978-80-970821-3-0
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Number of pages
13
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98-110
Publisher name
Slovak Association for the Study of English
Place of publication
Košice
Event location
Košice
Event date
May 5, 2011
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EUR - Evropská akce
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