A bilingual collection of revealing autobiographical sonnets, secular love poems, playful verses, reverential religious poetry, and lyrical tributes to New World culture. The text also includes a translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece the "Primero Sueno".
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often overlooked, is clear in THE DIVINE NARCISSUS, an allegory ostensibly written to explain Christian concepts to the Aztecs whose plight under colonization it also ...
This book contains a selection of poetry by the Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695). Also known as the "tenth muse," she wrote with wit and intelligence about love, freedom and women's rights. The precise meaning of many of her poems is still debated, but her literary work is crucial for a comprehension of the Baroque period which so ...
Estos Villancicos y letras sacras comprueban, contra la extendida idea de que Sor Juana escribio poca poesia religiosa, como temas de esta naturaleza no solo no le fueron del todo ajenos, sino que, con mucho, los frecuento al correr de los anos de su madurez. Ademas de los villancicos, que con toda seguridad son suyos, en este volumen se recogen ...
This book, published in an English/Spanish bilingual format, reproduces the complete text of what has become one of the classic works of Spanish American literature. Well known as a poet during her lifetime, the nun's bold confrontation with high church authority, followed shortly by her death during an epidemic while tending to her sister nuns, ...
Sor Juana ocupa en el campo de la lirica el lugar mas destacado del periodo final del Barroco hispano. Dedico su vida al estudio, derecho que reivindico como mujer frente a las persecuciones en que por este motivo se vio envuelta: su verdadera vocacion no fue religiosa, sino intelectual. Heredera de una cultura que habia llegado a su apogeo supo ...
Amor es ms laberinto est ambientada en el mundo clsico. Se trata de un texto erudito, reflejo de la excelente biblioteca que logr reunir su autora. Por otra parte destaca la visin del amor que ofrece sor Juana, desprovista de tapujos y sorprendente tratndose de una mujer dedicada a la vida religiosa. 'Amor es ms laberinto' ('Love is More a ...
En plena madurez literaria, sor Juana critic un sermn del padre Vieyra. Ello provoc que el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernndez de Santa Cruz, le pidiera que abandonase la literatura y se dedicase por entero a la religin. Sor Juana se defendi con una aguda respuesta. In the midst of her literary maturity, Sor Juana criticized a sermon given by Father ...
El ms conocido de los autos sacramentales de Sor Juana, publicado en 1685. La obra cuenta con personajes alegricos, mitolgicos y una pequea participacin de personajes bblicos. As, Naturaleza Humana, la protagonista, dialoga con Sinagoga y Gentilidad, se enfrenta a Eco y a Soberbia. Narciso, bellsimo hijo de la ninfa Lirope y del ro Cefiso ...
En plena madurez literaria, sor Juana critic un sermn del padre Vieyra. Ello provoc que el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernndez de Santa Cruz, le pidiera que abandonase la literatura y se dedicase por entero a la religin. Sor Juana se defendi con una aguda respuesta. Adems de dramaturga teloga, era tambin poeta, ahora reconocida entre las ms ...
For the first time ever, here is an exquisite sampling of love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the 17th century nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz translated into the poetic idiom of our own time by poets Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique. The poems included in this selection have ...
Este libro contiene poemas dedicados a celebridades; religiosos; loas, lrico-dramticas; poemas "personales" y los poemas picos "Neptuno Alegrico" y "La Razn de la fbrica alegrica y aplicacin de la fbula." This book contains poems on religious themes, tributes to celebrated figures, "personal" poems, lyrical-dramatic verse, and epic poems such as ...
In this hilarious seventeenth-century cloak-and-sword play, eight characters are enmeshed in a tangled web of mutual obligations. When they find themselves thrown together in the house of Don Pedro de Arellano in Toledo, they struggle to fulfill, or escape, those obligations. The action involves female rivalry, love triangles, kidnapping, and ...
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) was famous in her time as a brilliant intellectual, poet, and playwright and is recognized in our time as an early feminist. Her masterpiece of comic theatre, Los empenos de una casa receives its first
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, known as "The Tenth Muse" of America, has been widely anthologized as a poet, intellectual, and defender of women's rights. Her calling as a nun, often denigrated or overlooked, is clear in The Divine Narcissus, the finest extant example of the auto sacramental, a medieval genre similar to mystery plays. Autos presented ...
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