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Item Details
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DRESSED TO KILL
DEATH AND MEANING IN ZAYA'S DESENGANOS |
| By: |
Elizabeth Rhodes |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£47.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1442643501 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781442643505 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 December, 2011 |
| Series: |
University of Toronto Romance Series |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
17 |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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