Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - Selected Works (Hardcover)

Juana Ines De LA Cruz; Translated by Edith Grossman; Introduction by Julia Alvarez

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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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Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	September 2014
Authors:	Juana Ines De LA Cruz
Translators:	Edith Grossman
Introduction by:	Julia Alvarez
Dimensions:	218 x 147 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-24175-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Miscellaneous items > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-24175-0
Barcode:	9780393241754