The Concept of Caledonian Antisyzygy as It Is Manifested in Hogg's Justified Sinner and Robertson's Gideon Mack

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Concept of Caledonian Antisyzygy as It Is Manifested in Hogg's Justified Sinner and Robertson's Gideon Mack

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Concept of Caledonian Antisyzygy as It Is Manifested in Hogg's Justified Sinner and Robertson's Gideon Mack

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Language, Literature and Culture in Present-Day Context: Contemporary Research Perspectives in Anglophone PhD Studies

ISBN

978-80-970821-3-0

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Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

98-110

Název nakladatele

Slovak Association for the Study of English

Místo vydání

Košice

Místo konání akce

Košice

Datum konání akce

5. 5. 2011

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

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