antisyzygy

antisyzygy

(ˌæntɪˈsɪzɪdʒɪ)
n
the joining together of opposites
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Gregory Smith's 'Caledonian Antisyzygy', hardened into twentieth-century dogma, the consensus had its roots in J.
The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture
Gregory Smith defined the 'Caledonian Antisyzygy' as 'the very combination of opposites'.
Introduction: the sick body and the fractured self: (Contemporary) Scottish Gothic
En Modernism and Nationalism, Margery Palmer McCulloch recoge de manera exhaustiva la heterogeneidad de un periodo en el que, entre otros conflictos, se intentaban conciliar las contradicciones del Caledonian Antisyzygy, definidas en 1919 por Gregory Smith como "the contrasts which the Scot shows at every turn, in his political and ecclesiastical history, in his polemical restlessness, in his adaptability" (Palmer McCulloch 2004: 6).
Margery Palmer McCulloch, ed. 2004: Modernism and Nationalism. Literature and Society in Scotland 1918-1939. Source Documents for the Scottish Renaissance
In "Caledonian Antisyzygy" (1962) MacDiarmid confronts his dilemma: "I write now in English now in Scots / To the despair of friends who plead / For consistency."
Hugh MacDiarmid. On a Raised Beach and Other Poems / Sopra un terrazzo marino e altre poesie
Now, if we consider Gregory Smith's--and then Hugh MacDiarmid's--"Caledonian Antisyzygy," the overmentioned bipolar identity of the Scots, are you with authors, like Tom Nairn (1992: 6) in reference to the 1979 referendum, who see this as a recurring motto for those who try to justify the political inmobilisation of an internally-colonised people?
An interview with Liz Lochhead
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