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ByCatherine E. Karkov,George Hardin Brown
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35“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” –Thomas Carlyle
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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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