Title: Maria De Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures)
First published: May 2000
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Zayas y sotomayor, maria de, 1590-1650, Criticism and interpretationzayas y sotomayor, maría de , 1590-1650, Pq6498.z5 g74 2000, 863/.3