Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz: Selected Works - Rilegato

De La Cruz, Juana In?s

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ISBN 10: 0393241750 ISBN 13: 9780393241754

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

Riassunto

Sor Juana (1651–1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense—evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson—of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works—playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor—are also included.

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A welcome new translation of the charismatic Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz! Historians of feminism will be especially drawn to this version of her classic, impassioned letter to the misogynistic bishop whom she mistakenly thought was 'Sor Filotea.' --Sandra M. Gilbert, coeditor, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women"

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393241750
• ISBN 13: 9780393241754
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216