![]() It employs the convoluted poetic forms of the Baroque to recount the torturous quest of the soul for knowledge. It includes the fully annotated primary text responding to the church officials the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer an expanded selection of poems an updated bibliography and a new preface. Other articles where First Dream is discussed: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: as the Primero sueño (1692 First Dream, published in A Sor Juana Anthology, 1988), is both personal and universal. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. Among his writings is his Elogio funebre de sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, praising the virtues of one of the most distinguished of the authoresses in Spanish. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause. The Answer/La Respuesta (1691) is is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her. Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. You fight their stubbornness, then, weightily, you say it was their lightness when it was your guile. ![]() ![]() ![]() Defiant writing by the first feminist of the Americas-the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz-in response to the church officials that tried to silence her. You foolish men who lay the guilt on women, not seeing you’re the cause of the very thing you blame if you invite their disdain with measureless desire why wish they well behave if you incite to ill. ![]()
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