Anglo-Saxon Styles (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)
Editorial Reviews Book Description Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From the Back Cover Art historian Meyer Schapiro defined style as "the constant form-and sometimes the constant elements, qualities, and expression-in the art of an individual or group. Today, style is frequently overlooked as a critical tool, with our interest instead resting with the personal, the ephemeral, and the fragmentary. Anglo-Saxon Styles demonstrates just how vital style remains in a methodological and theoretical prism, regardless of the object, individual, fragment, or process studied. Contributors from a variety of disciplines-including literature, art history, manuscript studies, philology, and more- consider the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon culture and in contemporary scholarship. They demonstrate that the idea of style as a "constant form" has its limitations, and that style is in fact the ordering of form, both verbal and visual. Anglo-Saxon texts and images carry meanings and express agendas, presenting us with paradoxes and riddles that require us to keep questioning the meanings of style. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Anglo-Saxon Styles (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)
Anglo-Saxon Styles (Suny Series in Medieval Studies),Catherine E. Karkov,George Hardin Brown,State University of New York Press,0791458709,Art, Anglo-Saxon,Civilization,England,English language,European,General,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Manuscripts, English (Old),Medieval,Old English, ca. 450-1100,Style,To 1066
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