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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
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2001
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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).

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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" L (1.01 lbs) 182 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 212
 
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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.
 
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