Law and style - First conjectures about juridical stylistics
| Autor | Maria Francisca Carneiro |
| Cargo | Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (UFPR) |
| Páginas | 139-149 |
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Revista Judiciária do Paraná – Ano XI – n. 11 – Maio 2016
Law and style – First conjectures about juridical
stylistics
Maria Francisca Carneiro1
Federal University of Paraná, Brazil (UFPR)
1. The concept of style
S that distinguish a deter-
mined form of expression. Originally the idea of style was expressed
in French as le style c’est l’homme même, to consider that style is the
manifestation of the subject, just as he is. However, it is still a matter
for discussion whether style is in the subject or in the material used,
in the case of a work of art, since it is the material that takes form and
expresses style. e question remains open, since there are no con-
clusive answers regarding it. We thus inquire whether style is in the
subject (the essence) or in the thing (the material), or rather, in the
content or in the form.
Style can be conceptualized as the special manner or character of
expressing thoughts, in speech or writing; styles can be classied as
simple, natural, elegant, graceful, rich, energetic, sublime, noble, af-
fected, burlesque, restrained, didactic, historical, orthodox. Styles can
accompany dierent schools of thought or art, such as gothic, classical,
baroque, expressionist, impressionist. Styles can be innite, as innite
as human creativity and its capacity for expression.
However great the dierence may be between material and expres-
sion, some works of art obey common characteristics, such as the pre-
dominance of lines, the representation in planes and the clarity of out-
lines, which reect a certain type of structuring vision. ere we nd
the basis for the classication of styles. However, styles are structuring
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