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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.
About the Author:Margaret R. Greer is Associate Professor of Spanish at Duke University. Her previous books include The Play of Power: Mythological Court Dramas of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Princeton, 1991) and "La estatua de Prometeo" by Pedro Caldern de la Barca: A Critical Edition (Edition Reichenberger, 1986).
- Binding Others
- Author/s Rich Greer, Margaret
- ISBN13 9780271019871
- ISBN10 0271019875
- Pages 468
- Published 2000
Maria de Zayas tells baroque tales of love and the cruelty of men
- Author Margaret Rich Greer
- Publisher PENN STATE U.P
- ISBN 9780271019871
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