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Article: Maria de Zayas: The Dynamics of Discourse.
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1661) wrote twenty novelle in two collections, published in 1637 and 1647, as well as poetry and drama. In many ways, she stands alone as a secular prose writer who models her work on (and against the grain of) Cervantes. The Novelas ejemplares y amorosas and the Desenganos amorosos are fascinating from the perspective of structure, language, and ideology, all of which are marked, logically, by gender inflection. Zayas's subject is feminine inscription in society and in the literary text. Relatively ignored by critics until recent decades, Zayas has now come into her own, or into the canon, thanks to the efforts of a number of scholars in ...
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