Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men /
Greer, Margaret
Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men / Margaret Greer. - 1 online resource (480 p.) - Studies in Romance Literatures .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Titles of Zayas and Cervantes Novellas in English Translation -- PART I The Subject in Question -- Introduction: Desiring Readers -- 1 The Biographical Puzzle -- 2 The Writer and Her Reception -- 3 The Prologue "Al que leyere" and the Question of Zayas's Feminism -- PART II The Mother Plot -- 4 Aventurarse perdiendo -- 5 Mothers Otherwise -- PART III Border Crossings -- 6 Phallic Woman; or, The Laugh of the Medusa -- 7 The Sexual Masquerade: Cross-Dressing and Gender Definition -- 8 The Undead and the Supernatural -- 9 Familiar Enemies -- PART IV En-closure -- 10 Framing the Tale -- Conclusion -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix I: The First Ending of El castigo de la miseria -- Appendix II: Plots Summaries -- Appendix III: Charts of Stories -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her “scandalous” works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership, drawing intense critical attention and achieving canonical status as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of Zayas’s prose, Margaret R. Greer explores the relationship between narration and desire, analyzing both the “desire for readers” displayed by Zayas in her Prologue and the sexual desire that drives the telling within the novellas themselves. Greer examines Zayas’s narrative strategies through the twin lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She devotes close attention to the weight of Renaissance literary traditions and the role of Zayas’s own cultural context in shaping her work. She discusses Zayas’s biography and the reception of her publications; her advocacy of women’s rights; her conflictive loyalty to an aristocratic, patriarchal order; her crafting of feminine tales of desire; and her erasure of the frontiers between the natural and supernatural, indeed, between love and death itself. In so doing, Greer offers an expansive analysis of this recently rediscovered Golden Age writer.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271097688
10.1515/9780271097688 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Desengaños amorosos. María de Zayas y Sotomayo. Novelas amorosas y exemplares.
PQ6498.Z5 / G74 2000
863/.3
Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men / Margaret Greer. - 1 online resource (480 p.) - Studies in Romance Literatures .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Titles of Zayas and Cervantes Novellas in English Translation -- PART I The Subject in Question -- Introduction: Desiring Readers -- 1 The Biographical Puzzle -- 2 The Writer and Her Reception -- 3 The Prologue "Al que leyere" and the Question of Zayas's Feminism -- PART II The Mother Plot -- 4 Aventurarse perdiendo -- 5 Mothers Otherwise -- PART III Border Crossings -- 6 Phallic Woman; or, The Laugh of the Medusa -- 7 The Sexual Masquerade: Cross-Dressing and Gender Definition -- 8 The Undead and the Supernatural -- 9 Familiar Enemies -- PART IV En-closure -- 10 Framing the Tale -- Conclusion -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix I: The First Ending of El castigo de la miseria -- Appendix II: Plots Summaries -- Appendix III: Charts of Stories -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590–1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), which were immensely popular in her day. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Victorian and bourgeois sensibilities exiled her “scandalous” works to the outer fringes of serious literature. Over the last two decades, however, she has gained an enthusiastic and ever-expanding readership, drawing intense critical attention and achieving canonical status as a major figure of the Spanish Golden Age. In this first comprehensive study of Zayas’s prose, Margaret R. Greer explores the relationship between narration and desire, analyzing both the “desire for readers” displayed by Zayas in her Prologue and the sexual desire that drives the telling within the novellas themselves. Greer examines Zayas’s narrative strategies through the twin lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory. She devotes close attention to the weight of Renaissance literary traditions and the role of Zayas’s own cultural context in shaping her work. She discusses Zayas’s biography and the reception of her publications; her advocacy of women’s rights; her conflictive loyalty to an aristocratic, patriarchal order; her crafting of feminine tales of desire; and her erasure of the frontiers between the natural and supernatural, indeed, between love and death itself. In so doing, Greer offers an expansive analysis of this recently rediscovered Golden Age writer.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271097688
10.1515/9780271097688 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Desengaños amorosos. María de Zayas y Sotomayo. Novelas amorosas y exemplares.
PQ6498.Z5 / G74 2000
863/.3