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Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya’s Desenganos (University of Toronto Romance Series) PDF

248 Pages·2011·0.92578125 MB·English
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by Elizabeth Rhodes| 2011| 248 pages| 0.92578125| English

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The noble wives in Maria de Zayas’s Desenganos suffer terrible one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas’s aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author’s pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers. Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas’s Desenganos with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints’ lives. Elizabeth Rhodes elegantly uncovers Zayas’s intention to reform the Spanish nobility by displaying noble misbehaviour and its deadly consequences. Her book concludes by detailing the Desenganos ‘ intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of Zayas.

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Author:Elizabeth Rhodes
Publication Year:2011
ISBN:9781442643505
Pages:248
Language:English
File Size:0.92578125
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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