PLURALITY OF PERSPECTIVES AND SUBJECTS IN THE LITERARY GENRES OF THE YUCATEC MAYA

The author applies to literary texts some of the parameters used in re ference to questions of perspective in the visual arts. Disagreeing wi th 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 believ es not that the enunciator's perspective is transferred onto the work, but that the perspective of the work is imposed on the enunciator. Th e perspective of each genre situates the enunciator in a specific plac e in relation to the world and shapes him or her differentially as sub ject.