La variedad ejemplar de las Novelas amorosas y ejemplares de María de Zayas

Abstract

This study sets out to interrogate the notion of exemplarity in María de Zayas’s Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637), whose title can be read as an opportunistic extension of Cervantes’s famous work. Far from limiting itself to the study of the outcomes of the «maravillas» of the author, the article attempts to show the coherence of the construction of the characters and, in some novels, the patient construction of an exemplary sense in which a feminine perspective is expressed that claims an equality of potencies and capacities between Women and Men.

Keywords

• exemplarity
• poetic
• character
• voice
• woman
• short story