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Proto-Feminism, gender, and Genre: Moderata Fonte and Maria de Zayas Sotomayor's Silent Alliance
Title
Proto-Feminism, gender, and Genre: Moderata Fonte and Maria de Zayas Sotomayor's Silent Alliance.
Creator
Sardu Castangia, Luisanna, Ruthenberg, Myriam Swennen, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
In their comparative study of Medieval and Renaissance European women writers, Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, exploring the relationship between Italian women writers and their English and French counterparts, assumed a "dynamic interaction" existed. Despite the absence of Spanish women writers in that collection when observing the themes and writing strategies ofModerata Fonte and Maria de Zayas Sotomayor, one can observe a number of similarities that points toward a dynamic interaction...
Show moreIn their comparative study of Medieval and Renaissance European women writers, Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, exploring the relationship between Italian women writers and their English and French counterparts, assumed a "dynamic interaction" existed. Despite the absence of Spanish women writers in that collection when observing the themes and writing strategies ofModerata Fonte and Maria de Zayas Sotomayor, one can observe a number of similarities that points toward a dynamic interaction and moreover, to the transmission of proto-feminist ideas along "memory chains".
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000960
Subject Headings
Fonte, Moderata,--1555-1592--Criticism and interpretation, Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Feminism in literature
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La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas
Title
La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas.
Creator
Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
In my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six...
Show moreIn my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six of the short stories in her two novels to show how the author alters the role of the witch associated with the devil, transforming her to a saint associated with "lo magico de los cielos, " assigning the diabolical role to the man.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000948
Subject Headings
Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (LIterature), Witches--Fiction
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Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire and Gender Balance in Early Modern Italian, English, and Spanish Drama
Title
Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire and Gender Balance in Early Modern Italian, English, and Spanish Drama.
Creator
Baccinelli, Mitchel, Conrod, Frédéric, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Lingustics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
Renaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its...
Show moreRenaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its expression as a metric in conjunction with modern concepts of gender and sexuality to measure a shift in relation to what is and is not allowed to be expressed by women.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004717, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004717
Subject Headings
Baroque literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Desire in literature, English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Criticism and interpretation, Italian literature -- 17th century -- Criticism and interpretation, Machiavelli, Niccolò -- 1469-1527 -- Mandragola -- Criticism and interpretation, Shakespeare, William -- 1564-1616 -- Romeo and Juliet -- Criticism and interpretation, Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- Criticism and interpretation, Vega, Lope de -- 1562-1635 -- Fuente Ovejuna -- Criticism and interpretation
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