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(A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes and the Early Picaresque (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, V. 23)

Book information

Publisher
Purdue University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
1557532273, 9781557532275
LCC
PQ6147.P5 C38 2001
Open Library ID
OL12084499M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6599112 bytes)
Series
Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 23
Pages
198\198
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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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