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Plurality of Perspectives and Subjects in the Literary Genres of the Yucatec Maya
Author(s) -
GutiérrezEstévez Manuel
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1998.100.2.309
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , utterance , relation (database) , semiotics , the arts , subject (documents) , sociology , linguistics , epistemology , literature , aesthetics , philosophy , art , visual arts , computer science , database , library science
The author applies to literary texts some of the parameters used in reference to questions of perspective in the visual arts. Disagreeing with Erwin Panofsky, who considers perspective a “symbolic form,” the author sees it as a device of utterance and thus a generator of signs susceptible to semiotic study. Unlike many scholars, the author believes not that the enunciator's perspective is transferred onto the work, but that the perspective of the work is imposed on the enunciator. The perspective of each genre situates the enunciator in a specific place in relation to the world and shapes him or her differentially as subject.