10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTISYZYGY»
Discover the use of
antisyzygy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
antisyzygy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Education and
Antisyzygy: Depictions of Teachers in ...
Seven of the nine novels clearly exhibited these characteristics.
2
Selected Essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
6. THE. CALEDONIAN. ANTISYZYGY. AND. THE. GAELIC. IDEA. 1931-2 I. THE
KELPIE IN THE DORTS The kelpie in the dorts owre lang has lain Drooned in the
heedlessness o' men, Owre idle or owre ignorant to ken The glories that it micht ...
Hugh MacDiarmid, Duncan Glen, 1970
3
The Arts, Society, Literature
this final political phase, we must consider an unusual phrase much prized by
MacDiarmid: the Caledonian Antisyzygy. This curious phrase first appears in G.
Gregory Smith's Scottish Literature: Character and Influence, which, when it was
...
Harry Raphael Garvin, 1984
4
Nations of Nothing But Poetry : Modernism, Transnationalism, ...
77 For MacDiarmid, however, the antisyzygy is far grander. It is a flame of
tradition to stoke; a philosophical justification for his polyglot and autodidactic
minglings; and a principle through which Scotland might re-join the greater
European ...
Matthew Hart Assistant Professor Columbia University, 2010
5
From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory ...
In the beginning was the word, and the word was antisyzygy. A few decades
before the beginning, Patrick Geddes, returning from France, was imagining
cities which were effectively made of culture; the term 'Scottish Renaissance' is
his.
6
Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text
as growing out of the critical history surrounding Smith's phrase “Caledonian
antisyzygy”, that heavily overused term in Scottish literary studies. T. S. Eliot, in
his review of Smith's book, rather disparagingly titled “Was there a Scottish
literature?
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8
The Break-up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-nationalism
It threatens to suck the victim down into the land of the 'Caledonian Antisyzygy'.17
That is, into the realm of an anguished examination of conscience and
consciousness, a troubled subjective posturing, to which—for reasons I hope will
be ...
9
English Literature and the Other Languages
Such deterministic gloom is not universal, and is countered most eloquently by G.
Gregory Smith's formulation of "the Caledonian antisyzygy" in his Scottish
Literature: Character & Influence. Smith argues that Scotland's standing as a
small ...
Ton Hoenselaars, Marius Buning, 1999
THE CALEDONIAN ANTISYZYGY OF G. GREGORY SMITH Not usually noticed
is the foundational influence of the passage quoted above upon the most famous
work of criticism in Scottish literature, Scottish Literature: Character and ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTISYZYGY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
antisyzygy is used in the context of the following news items.
44 Scotland Street: The Caledonian antisyzygy
44 Scotland Street: The Caledonian antisyzygy. Illustration by Iain McIntosh. ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH. 00:00 Wednesday 10 June 2015 ... «Scotsman, Jun 15»
Alex Salmond: The Dream Shall Never Die - 100 Days That …
In short, he is the epitome of the Caledonian antisyzygy, Gregory Smith's inspired term for the union of opposites. Often in this book Salmond ... «Herald Scotland, Mar 15»
Criminally Caledonian: on the art of detective fiction and the glory of …
In writing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson was reviving a theme sometimes – though rarely out loud – called “the Caledonian antisyzygy”, the ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
Joyce McMillan: Give us bigness of heart to reach out
Yet as this week dawned, with the polls almost evenly divided, and Scotland adding another great “antisyzygy” – Yes or No – to a history ... «Scotsman, Sep 14»
Yes or No? The moment for Scots when extremes of their being meet
This is the so-called Caledonian Antisyzygy - the “idea of dueling polarities within one entity” - as later referenced by poet and polemicist Hugh ... «The Conversation AU, Sep 14»
Strange Case of Mr Salmond wanting a BBC journalist's hide
THE world's media arrived in Scotland to be treated to a case study in the Caledonian Antisyzygy. THE world's media arrived in Scotland to be ... «Herald Scotland, Sep 14»
Scotland, forever in two minds
G Gregory Smith in 1919 labelled the condition the “Caledonian antisyzygy” – the notion that a clash of extremes lies at the heart of the national ... «Financial Times, Feb 14»
Reviewed: On Edinburgh and Glasgow by Robert Crawford
So perhaps it is not surprising that the rivalry between her greatest cities is but another example of the “Caledonian antisyzygy”, first identified ... «New Statesman, Feb 13»
How seven key figures in Scottish culture have fared over 25 years
... Superhumannatural takes over several of Edinburgh's major galleries, and engages again with dualism and the Caledonian Antisyzygy. «The List, Sep 10»
