(A)WRY VIEWS: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque

A scholarly work that demonstrates that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age (1550-1650) is susceptible to a mode of interpretation that permits, and indeed requires, "oblique readings." Thus the perspectivist tendencies invite the reader to actively participate in a game of displacements and sudden revelations. Illus.