The Untold Story: Women and Theory in Golden Age Texts

Choosing as her texts three works of the Spanish Golden Age, Mary Gossy uses feminist, reader-response, psychoanalytic, and narratological theory to examine gaps in narrative. The study surveys various critical approaches to such gaps, which, though intolerable to the reader, are necessary to the operations of desire that make reading possible. It then examines the ways in which the treatment of gaps by traditional reading strategies reflects the treatment of women and women’s bodies, makin...