| Awry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque Contributor(s): Castillo, David R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557532273 ISBN-13: 9781557532275 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2001 Annotation: The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Literary Criticism | Modern - 16th Century |
| Dewey: 863.309 |
| LCCN: 00054860 |
| Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.34" W x 9.32" (1.01 lbs) 182 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of puzzled spectators as they move from the center of the representation to the margins, or from one side to the other. (A) Wry Views demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings (as in anamorphosis). |
Contributor Bio(s): Castillo, David R.: - David R. Castillo sits on the editorial board of the book series Hispanic Issues and has published articles on the work of Miguel de Cervantes, Baltasar Gracián, the picaresque tradition, baroque Spanish theater, the literature of the early colonial period, questions of nation-building, identity formation, and cultural theory. |