anamorphism

Situating his argument in the historical context of Michel Foucault's famous reading of the hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin, Stone coins the term hermaphroditic anamorphism, which he defines as "the quality of being and simultaneously not being one sex; of being both male and female, and therefore neither one nor the other" (24).

James W. Stone, Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within

One possible answer is offered by Matthew Beaumont's contribution to Red Planets, "The Anamorphic Estrangements of Science Fiction," which begins from an extended analysis of anamorphism in Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors (1533) and continues with readings of anamorphism as a perspectival device in H.

Bould, Mark, and China Mieville, eds. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. x + 293 pp

Habib, Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1993); Bert O.

The persistence of character

CITE

Site: Follow: Share:

Open / Close

Display	ON
Animation	ON

Legend
	Synonym
	Antonym
	Related