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). 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.
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.
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