(A)Wry Views

by Castillo, David R.

• ISBN13: 9781557532275
• ISBN10: 1557532273
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

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).

Author Biography

David R. Castillo is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(18)
Part 1 The Picaresque	19	(52)
Putting Things in Anamorphic Perspective: The Case of Lazarillo	21	(14)
The Gaze of an-Other in Guzman de Alfarache	35	(19)
Look Who's Talking! Justina and Cultural Authority	54	(17)
Part 2 Cervantes	71	(60)
Don Quixote: A Case of Anamorphic Literature	73	(21)
Persiles, or The Cervantine Art of Looking Down and Awry	94	(19)
A ``Symptomatic'' View of the Honor System in Cervantes's Theater	113	(18)
Conclusion	131	(8)
Illustrations	139	(8)
Notes	147	(16)
Works Cited	163	(14)
Index	177