David R. Castillo
Awry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque.
Purdue University Press, 2001. Purdue studies in Romance literatures, 23. First printing. 9781557532275  xiii/182 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"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)."