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Persephone's Girdle: Narratives of Rape in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature

Persephone's Girdle: Narratives of Rape in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0826513514
ISBN13: 9780826513519
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Feb 21 2000
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
A bold, gender-inflected reinterpretation of secular Spanish texts of the early modern period that focuses on sexual violence as expressive of cultural and political issues.

Marcia Welles applies her extensive knowledge of Spanish Golden Age literature and her insightful grasp of current literary theory to synthesize a wide range of material into a uniquely engaging and refreshing interpretation of well-known texts. While the subject of rape and violence has been studied in other European literatures, Persephone's Girdle is the first to do so in the field of early modern Spanish literature.

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