Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-12300-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries.

Every work of art that involves anamorphosis invites the viewer or reader to decrypt its distortional elements, resolve confusion and seek understanding, creating a balance between disruption and wholeness. To do this with the works examined—ranging from Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors to Hamlet to Mulholland Drive— the book favours close, almost archaeological readings of works instead of analyses relying primarily on hegemonic academic theory, which often imposes external meanings and focuses on uncovering flaws or hidden ideologies. The author resists theory’s invasive tendency toward negativity and disconfirmation bias—interpreting texts based on preconceived assumptions, often ignoring what genuinely draws people to art and literature. While the search for ‘the secret perspective’ might seem similar to theoretical critique, this book is set apart by its method of emphasizing the discovery of anamorphic elements from within the work itself and by its selective use of theory. The goal is an open, nuanced, stereoscopic analysis of anamorphosis across time.

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film is intended for scholars, students and general readers of art and the history of ideas in the humanities.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabijancic, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1. A Forming Anew Chapter 2. Distorted Registers Chapter 3. The Tangential Clairvoyant Chapter 4. Anagrammatic Encryption Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Fabijancic is a Professor of English at the School of Arts and Social Science, Grenfell Campus at Memorial University, Canada. His other books are Drink in the Summer: A Memoir of Croatia, Bosnia: in the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip, and Croatia: Travels in Undiscovered Country.