Sor Juana Summary

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 Sor Juana InÉs De La Cruz... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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)... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more