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Edith Grossman's acclaimed translations of The Tenth Muse's best
known works are offered here with introductory materials and
explanatory footnotes, along with related additional works and
eight critical essays.
La presente antologia comprende poemas y cartas de sor Juana Ines
de la Cruz que constituyen un relevante panorama del Mexico del
siglo XVII.
La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, the most famous prose work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, is a passionate defense of the rights of women to study, teach, and write, and is one of the world’s earliest treatises on these subjects. Also included in this wide-ranging bilingual collection by Latin America’s finest baroque poet is a new translation of her masterpiece, the epistemological poem "Primero Sueño," as well as autobiographical sonnets, religious poetry, secular love poems, playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture.
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 (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."
Juana Ines de la Cruz no es solo la figura intelectual senera del
Virreinato de Nueva Espana, es la figura ineludible de la historia
literaria e intelectural mexicana, es la mayor poeta y filosofa
hispana del periodo colonial, y la autora del maximo poema
filosofico de la lengua. Esta edicion critica de El sueno incluye
tambien notas y version prosificada del poema, mas la prosa de
Juana Ines, sus cartas y su Neptuno alegorico, estudios criticos de
Roberto Echavarren, Romina Freschi y Angela Martinez, mas los
documentos de la forzada abjuracion de Juana Ines ante las
autoridades de la Iglesia Catolica. Juana Ines de la Cruz es la
figura imprescindible en relacion a la poesia y la filosofia del
barroco americano, asi como en relacion a la lucha por los derechos
de las mujeres.
Text in Spanish. El martir del Sacramento es uno de los tres autos
sacramentales de sor Juana Ines dela Cruz, junto con El divino
Narciso y El cetro de Jose. La presente edicion ofrece eltexto mas
fiable hasta la fecha, acompanado de un aparato de notas
explicativas y unestudio preliminar que intenta contextualizar el
auto en su marco generico y facilitar lacomprension de los lectores
de nuestros dias.
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