![]() ![]() Clamurro, and Cristina Enriquez de Salamanca. The contributors include Mary Elizabeth Perry, Susan Paun de Garcia, H. The twelve essays in this volume attest to the renewed interest in Zayas, whose writings invite scrutiny from multiple vantage points. 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 the United States and Spain. Zayas's subject is feminine inscription in society and in the literary text. 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. In many ways, she stands alone as a secular prose writer who models her work on (and against the grain of) Cervantes. ![]() Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1661) wrote twenty novelle in two collections, published in 16, as well as poetry and drama.
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