Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz

Born in Mexico in 1648, Latin America's finest baroque poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz spent her entire adult life in a convent. This unique dual-language collection of her works includes a famous prose piece that offers fascinating insights into the poet and the world in which she lived. Remarkable for her time, Sor Juana discusses the position of women with astonishing frankness, irony, and thinly veiled anger, issues that continue to be of concern today. How far, yet how little we have come in 300 years.

Selected Writings

Poems, Protest, and a Dream

Margaret Sayers Peden, who is well known and respected for her translations of Fuentes, Neruda, Quiroga, and Paz, has made an admirable selection of poems that includes romances, redondillas, epigrams, decimas, sonnets, silvas, villancicos, and two excerpts from Sor Juana's theater. The introduction and notes provide the necessary context for those unfamiliar with the poet's life and times.

Poems

Sor Juana's Love Poems (Poemas de Amor)

Primero Sueño - 583 -

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

?[The Answer] is eloquent, sardonic, learned and, particularly in its autobiographical part, of great freshness.”?The Times Literary Supplement ?One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and . . . in the history of intellectual freedom. . . . This is essential reading.”?Stephen Greenblatt, best-selling author and professor ?Recommended for informed readers.”?Library Journal Expanded to include fresh translations, an updated bibliography, and the letter that provoked the writing of The Answer, this new edition of the bilingual, critical bestseller provides the most accurate translations of works by the iconic seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

La Respuesta

Obras escogidas

Antología de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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 en gran cantidad otros que podrian suponerse salidos de su pluma.

Villancicos y letras sacras

Dream

Juan León Mera

precedidas de su biografia y juicio crítico sobre todas sus producciones

Obras selectas de la celebre monja de Mejico, sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)

A play by the seventeenth-century Mexican author features eight characters that become trapped in a web of mutual obligation when they find themselves thrown together at the Toledo home of Don Pedro de Arellano.

Los Empeños de Una Casa

"First complete English translation of Sor Juana's brilliant comedia, Los empeänos de una casa (1989), in which she subverts the conventions of gender and Golden Age drama to suit her own feminine perspectives. Castaäno, the male character disguised as awoman, performs the construction of gendered identity. Notes help with the 17th-century references and baroque Spanish. Bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This script served for premier productions in March 1996 at Oklahoma City Univ. and at the International Siglo de Oro Theater Festival in El Paso. The annotated translation is clear but its modern registers lose the baroque flavor and wit of the original, in contrast to Peden's translation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A Translation of Los Empeños de Una Casa

The House of Trials

Juana Inés de la Cruz (Sor)

Juana Sor Juana

Traces the life of the seventeenth century Hispanic poet, shares a selection of her poetry, and discusses her place in the history of Latin American literature

A Sor Juana Anthology

Alicia Z. Galván

Autodefensa Espiritual, a Poet's Translation

Sor Juana, Poet, Nun, Feminist, Enigma

Latin America's great poet rendered into English by the world's most celebrated translator of Spanish-language literature.

Selected Works

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Elías Trabulse

Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz y Sahagún

"Elegantly packaged and beautiful facsimile edition of the 1690 work. Includes an excellent and erudite introduction to the text by Elías Trabulse, one of the most renowned Mexican experts on the Hieronymite nun. Of interest to scholars, students, and desirable for special collections of works on or about Sor Juana"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Carta atenagórica de sor Juana

Poëmas de la única poetisa americana, musa dézima, soror Juana Inés de la Cruz

Obras completas

Alfonso Méndez Plancarte

Vol.1 . Lírica personal.-- Vol. 2. Villanciscos y letras sacras.--Vol. 3. Autos y loas.--vol.4. Comedias, sainetes y prosa. Vol.1 . Lírica personal.-- Vol. 2. Villanciscos y letras sacras.--Vol. 3. Autos y loas.--vol.4. Comedias, sainetes y prosa.

Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz

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