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Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños (University of Toronto Romance Series)

Elizabeth Rhodes

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Description:The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: 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 Desenga?os 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 Desenga?os' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of Zayas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños (University of Toronto Romance Series). To get started finding Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños (University of Toronto Romance Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: 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 Desenga?os 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 Desenga?os' intriguing influence on the aesthetic base of Gothic literature by revealing that its authors were avid readers of Zayas.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños (University of Toronto Romance Series). To get started finding Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zaya's Desengaños (University of Toronto Romance Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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