(a)wry Views
Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque
Published on 30. April 2001
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-1-55753-227-5 (ISBN)
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).
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Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55753-227-5 (9781557532275)
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David R. Castillo, University of Oregon, sits on the editorial board of the book series Hispanic Issues and has published articles on the work of Miguel de Cervantes, Baltasar Gracian, the picaresque tradition, baroque Spanish theater, the literature of the early colonial period, questions of nation-building, identity formation, and cultural theory.