BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Sor Juana"

 
Not What You Meant?  There are 2 definitions for Juana de la Cruz.

Sor Juana

Print-Friendly
About 252 pages (75,652 words) in 19 products

"Sor Juana" Search Results
Contents:
Biography

Name: Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister
Birth Date: 1651
Death Date: 1695
Place of Birth: Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Female
Occupations: nun, poet

summary from source:
Biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister
594 words, approx. 2 pages
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. Sister (or Sor) Juana Inés de la Cruz was born...


Ask any question on Sor Juana and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Juana Inés De La Cruz Summary
865 words, approx. 3 pages
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 forerunner of Hispanic feminism. However, the significance of her work and life in...
summary from source:
Juana Inés De La Cruz, Sor Summary
14,446 words, approx. 48 pages
Sor Juana is widely considered one of the finest writers and greatest intellectuals of seventeenth-century Hispanic culture. She pursued knowledge with great fervor and evidenced such genius that, in spite of scant formal education, she had achieved...


News and Journals
summary from source:

Prairie Schooner
Translating Sor Juana.(Biography)
12/22/2006: 1,191 words, approx. 4 pages
Who was this Sor Juana, whose name appears everywhere in Mexican and in world literature? In her book Mujer que sabe latin, Rosario Castellanos points out that in an era of uneducated women, the extraordinary Sor Juana emerged as un monstruo because there...
summary from source:


: 1 words, approx. 1 pages
...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Georgina Sabat de Rivers
5,996 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Sabat de Rivers explores the defining characteristics of Cruz's love sonnets.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Arthur Terry
5,470 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Terry analyzes Juana Inès de la Cruz's treatment of divine and romantic love in her verse.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Octavio Paz
5,344 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Paz traces the development of the villancico and surveys Cruz's poems in this genre.
 


Sor Juana Study Pack

Get the complete Sor Juana Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 252 pages (at 300 words per page) in 18 products.

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
1 Biography
2 Encyclopedia Articles
14 Literature Criticism Essays
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Sor Juana

Print-Friendly
About 252 pages (75,652 words) in 19 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |