A01=David R. Castillo
Author_David R. Castillo
Category=DSB
cervantes
don quixote
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literary analysis
literary criticism
lope de vega
luis de leon
luis gongora
pedro calderon
picaresque
spanish golden age
spanish history
spanish literary criticism
spanish literature
spanish poetry
tirso de molina
Product details
- ISBN 9781557532275
- Weight: 458g
- Dimensions: 161 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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).
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 Gracián, the picaresque tradition, baroque Spanish theater, the literature of the early colonial period, questions of nation-building, identity formation, and cultural theory.
