Maria De Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780271019871
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1600 to c 1700; Spanish Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literature: Classics; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; General; 1590-1650; Criticism and interpretation; Zayas y Sotomayor, Maria de,; Zayas y Sotomayor, Marâia de,
Description: "Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1650?) published two collections of novellas, Novelas amorosas y exemplares (1637) and Desenganos amorosos (1647), which were immensely poplar in her day.".

"In this study of Zayas's prose, Margaret Rich 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."--BOOK JACKET.