Literary notes about Perspective (AI summary)
The term "perspective" operates on multiple layers in literature, functioning both as a literal mechanism for constructing spatial relations and as a metaphor for broader philosophical or emotional viewpoints. Some writers employ it in a concrete sense, detailing the arrangement of space and light much like a painter’s technique or an architect’s blueprint ([1], [2], [3]), while others use it to convey shifts in attitude or understanding. For instance, one author associates perspective with the dynamic growth of values ([4], [5]), and another highlights the transformation of time and consciousness at the threshold of sleep ([6], [7]). In many narratives, perspective extends beyond physical representations to include historical, intellectual, or moral dimensions, thereby enriching the reader’s experience by offering a multifaceted view of reality ([8], [9]).
- Observe how Giotto in these frescoes—now, unhappily, ruined by restoration—is untroubled by the snares of anatomy and perspective.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - Received convention in geometrical drawing on the direction of the luminous ray, &c. Perspective of shadows.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Perspective is the method of sketching a front with the sides withdrawing into the background, the lines all meeting in the centre of a circle.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio - The multiformity of the world as a question of strength, which sees all things in the perspective of their growth.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - In this way, the whole perspective of the problems of morality is altered.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - I have myself often noted a curious exaggeration of time-perspective at the moment of a falling asleep.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - In hashish-intoxication there is a curious increase in the apparent time-perspective.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - What we say about reality thus depends on the perspective into which we throw it.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - The aim of a right criticism is to place Winckelmann in an intellectual perspective, of which Goethe is the foreground.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater
