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Sor Juana InÉs De La Cruz
(1651 - 1695)
(Born Juana Ramírez de Asbaje) Mexican poet, playwright, and prose writer.
Sor Juana InÉs De La Cruz: Introduction
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Juana InÉs De La Cruz
Born in Nepantla, near Mexico City, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648 or 1651–1695) is best known as one of the greatest Baroque poets and as the iconic fore...
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Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) was a Mexican nun renowned for her phenomenal knowledge of the arts and sciences of her day, her devotion to scientific inquiry, and her lyric poetry.Si...
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In the following essay from 1955, Graves categorizes Cruz as a woman of poetic genius and compares her to other great female poets.
Every few centuries a woman of poetic genius appears, who may be dis...
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In the following essay, Carrasco discusses Juana Ines de la Cruz's treatment of sexuality in Romance 48.
The essence of Sor Juana's Romance 48 is situational: it is a response, the other...
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In the following essay, Sabat de Rivers asserts that El sueño was written from a female perspective and discusses its feminine characteristics.
Undoubtedly there were many more women writing wo...
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In the following essay, Nanfito examines Cruz's treatment of time and space in her most famous poem.
If Renaissance poetry tended toward simplicity in its use of tense and time reference, the b...
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In the following essay, Rabin discusses the literary and political implications of Cruz's use of the blasón in her poetry.
The frontispiece of the Fama y obras pósthumas (1700), o...
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In the following essay, Sabat de Rivers explores the defining characteristics of Cruz's love sonnets.
The love sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz belong to the long and varied traditio...
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In the following essay, Flynn provides a stylistic and thematic overview of Cruz's poetry.
Sor Juana was in effect a poet laureate who had to write many poems for the important occasions of Chu...
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In the following essay, Terry analyzes Juana Inès de la Cruz's treatment of divine and romantic love in her verse.
The "sincerity" or otherwise of Sor Juana's love p...
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In the following essay, Paz explores the autobiographical aspects of Juana Inés de la Cruz's work and places her within the context of historical and political events of seventeenth-cent...
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In the following essay, Luciani places Juans Inés de la Cruz's burlesque sonnets within the context of the courtly love tradition.
In his controversial psychoanalytic study of Sor Juana ...
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In the following essay, Luciani discusses stylistic elements of Cruz's panegyric poem to Condesa de Galve.
The panegyric verse of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is, for most modern readers, o...
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In the following essay, Paz traces the development of the villancico and surveys Cruz's poems in this genre.
Poetic forms are like plants: some are native to the soil they grow in and others ar...
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In the following essay, Friedman offers a semiotic reading of three sonnets composed by Cruz.
Recent literary theory and criticism perhaps most differ from their precedents by reducing the role of int...
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In the following essay, Nanfito explores the function of spatial forms and their interrelationships in Cruz's El sueño, asserting that the poem is "a dream of height which enables...
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Critical Essay by Robert Graves
