The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas Brownlee Hardback John Wiley & Sons

The Cultural Labyrinth of Mara De ZayasAuthor(s): Marina S. Brownlee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812235371, 978-0812235371\nSynopsis\nA seventeenth-century writer of sensationalist short stories, Mara de Zayas was a bestselling author, steeped in the novella traditions of Italy and France as well as her native Spain. At the same time, she was an important player in the tabloid craze sweeping over the Europe of her day.\n Marina S. Brownlee recontextualizes Mara de Zayas and provides a reading of Zayas's work from the double perspective of narratology and feminism. In doing so Brownlee explores the complexities of human subjectivity and its representation in the writings of Zayas, who offers provocative assessments of the modern subject and its relationship to gender, and of the woman writer's negotiations with authority and authorship.\n Zayas's stories question the validity of .