Dressed to Kill
Elizabeth Rhodes
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Description for Dressed to Kill
hardcover. 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. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3JD; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
The noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños 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 Desengaños with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
University of Toronto Romance Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442643505
SKU
V9781442643505
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About Elizabeth Rhodes
Elizabeth Rhodes is a professor of Hispanic Studies in the Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures at Boston College, MA.
Reviews for Dressed to Kill
‘This is a fine book that lives up to its beautiful packaging. Rhodes makes excellent use of artistic as well as literary evidence, incorporating carefully chosen illustrations into the body of her discussion… This new effort to read Zayas on her own terms can only enhance our experience of her texts. I applaud Elizabeth Rhodes for having the courage of ... Read more