Anglo-Saxon styles /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in medieval studies SUNY series in medieval studies. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130372 |
| Summary: | Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417538392 9781417538393 0791458709 9780791458709 0791458695 9780791458693 0791486141 9780791486146 |