Juana Ines de La Cruz

De la pluma de Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, un extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre que reclama, en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los dem s. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revoluci n. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y tambi n las han destruido. Taurus publica las obras de los grandes pensadores, pioneros, radicales y visionarios cuyas ideas sacudieron la civilizaci n y nos impulsaron a ser quienes somos. Este extraordinario documento de feminismo avant la lettre se compone de dos cartas que reclaman, ya en el siglo XVII, el acceso de las mujeres al saber. Sor Juana, que us el h bito para acercarse a las letras, escribe con fuerza y encanto, y estos textos, en parte autobiogr ficos, son de una riqueza impresionante y sorprenden al conectar con muchas de nuestras preocupaciones actuales. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, an extraordinary feminist document avant la lettre demanding women's access to knowledge. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and others. They have inspired debate, discord, war and revolution. They have brought enlightenment, outrage, provocation and comfort. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Taurus publishes the works of great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas have shaken civilization and driven us to be who we are. This extraordinary feminist document avant la lettre is composed of a pair of seventeenth-century letters demanding that women have access to knowledge. Sor Juana, who became a nun to devote herself to study, writes with a strong and captivating style. Part of the richness of these semi-autobiographical texts is their surprising connection with modern-day concerns.

Una selecci n de la mejor sor Juana In s de la Cruz a cargo de Luna Miguel. Pero valor, coraz n: porque en tan dulce tormento, en medio de cualquier suerte no dejar de amar protesto. Sor Juana In s de la Cruz es una de las poetas m s importantes de la lengua espa ola. Cerr con broche de oro el Barroco hisp nico y es, adem s, una figura muy seductora: mujer, monja, sabia, defensora de la capacidad intelectual de las mujeres. Sin embargo, como toda autora c lebre, Sor Juana ha sido v ctima de su fama: todo el mundo la conoce, pero muy pocos la leen. Esta selecci n a cargo de la tambi n poeta Luna Miguel pone al alcance de todos los lectores la brillantez de los mejores poemas de aquella que fue perseguida por dedicarse en cuerpo y alma no a la religi n, sino a la intelectualidad y la escritura. El lector actual descubrir en estos versos la perspicacia y el desaf o que su poes a imperecedera alberga. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A selection of the best works of Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, compiled by Luna Miguel. But take courage, heart: because in such sweet torment, whatever my fate, I will never stop professing my love. Sor Juana In s de la Cruz is one of the most esteemed poets in the Spanish language. Writing at the peak of the Mexican Baroque, she is a figure with immense appeal: woman, nun, scholar, and defender of the female intellect. Like other celebrated authors, however, she is a victim of her fame. Everyone has heard of her, but very few have read her works. This anthology, curated by fellow poet Luna Miguel, aims to give a wider audience an appreciation of this brilliant author, persecuted in her time for devoting herself body and soul more to intellectual pursuits than to her religion. Here, modern readers will discover the insights and challenges posed by Sor Juana's timeless verses.

Muy ilustre Se ora, mi Se ora: No mi voluntad, mi poca salud y mi justo temor han suspendido tantos d as mi respuesta. Qu mucho si, al primer paso, encontraba para tropezar mi torpe pluma dos imposibles? El primero (y para m el m s riguroso) es saber responder a vuestra doct sima, discret sima, sant sima y amoros sima carta. Y si veo que preguntado el ngel de las Escuelas, Santo Tom s, de su silencio con Alberto Magno, su maestro, respondi que callaba porque nada sab a decir digno de Alberto, con cu nta mayor raz n callar a, no como el Santo, de humildad, sino que en la realidad es no saber algo digno de vos. El segundo imposible es saber agradeceros tan excesivo como no esperado favor, de dar a las prensas mis borrones: merced tan sin medida que aun se le pasara por alto a la esperanza m s ambiciosa y al deseo m s fant stico; y que ni aun como ente de raz n pudiera caber en mis pensamientos; y en fin, de tal magnitud que no s lo no se puede estrechar a lo limitado de las voces, pero excede a la capacidad del agradecimiento, tanto por grande como por no esperado, que es lo que dijo Quintiliano: Minorem spei, maiorem benefacti gloriam pereunt. Y tal que enmudecen al beneficiado.

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.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. The volume includes Sor Juana’s best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman’s right to study and to write. Thirty other works are also included.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) was a feminist and a woman ahead of her time. She was very much a public intellectual and her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico", names that continue to resonate. This self-taught intellectual rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age. The volume includes Sor Juana’s best-known works, including "First Dream", which showcases her prodigious intellect and range and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz", her epistolary feminist defence of a woman’s right to study and to write. Thirty other works are also included.

"Obras", de Juana In s de la Cruz. Juana In s de la Cruz fue una religiosa y escritora novohispana, exponente del Siglo de Oro de la literatura en espa ol (1651-1695)

Juana In s de la Cruz no es s lo la figura intelectual se era del Virreinato de Nueva Espa a, es la figura ineludible de la historia literaria e intelectural mexicana, es la mayor poeta y fil sofa hispana del per odo colonial, y la autora del m ximo poema filos fico de la lengua. Esta edici n cr tica de El sue o incluye tambi n notas y versi n prosificada del poema, m s la prosa de Juana In s, sus cartas y su Neptuno aleg rico, estudios cr ticos de Roberto Echavarren, Romina Freschi y ngela Mart nez, m s los documentos de la forzada abjuraci n de Juana In s ante las autoridades de la Iglesia Cat lica. Juana In s de la Cruz es la figura imprescindible en relaci n a la poes a y la filosof a del barroco americano, as como en relaci n a la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres.

Sor Juana In s 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 empe os de una casa receives its first English translation in this edition. The House of Trials, a romantic comedy of intrigue, mixes lyrical poetry, low puns, songs, sword fights, cross-dressing, and mistaken identities. In addition to the award-winning translation, the book contains essays discussing Sor Juana's life, the original production of the play, the unique use of asides, and various feminist interpretations of the House of Trials.

A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America's finest baroque poetSor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop's injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a century and a half serious writings on any continent about the position and education of women. Also included in this wide-ranging selection is a new translation of Sor Juana's masterpiece, the epistemological poem "Primero Sueno, " as well as revealing autobiographical sonnets, reverential religious poetry, secular love poems (which have excited speculation through three centuries), playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture that are among the earliest writings celebrating the people and the customs of this hemisphere. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Here is a new voice—new to us—reaching across a gap of three hundred years. Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz was acclaimed in her time as “Phoenix of Mexico, America’s Tenth Muse”; a generation later she was forgotten. In our century she was rediscovered, her works were reissued, and she is now considered one of the finest Hispanic poets of the seventeenth century. She deserves to be known to English-speaking readers for another reason as well: she speaks directly to our concern for the freedom of women to realize themselves artistically and intellectually. Her poetry is surprising in its scope and variety. She handled with ease the intricate verse forms of her day and wrote in a wide range of genres. Many of her lyrics reflect the worldliness and wit of the courtly society she moved in before becoming a nun; some, composed to be sung, offer charming glimpses of the native people, their festivities and colorful diversity. Alan Trueblood has chosen, in consultation with Octavio Paz, a generous selection of Sor Juana’s writings and has provided an introductory overview of her life and work. The short poems, and excerpts from her play The Divine Narcissus, are accompanied by the Spanish texts on facing pages. Her long philosophical poem, First Dream, is translated in its entirety, as is her famous autobiographical letter to the Bishop of Puebla, which is both a self-defense and a vindication of the right of women to cultivate their minds. The Anthology was conceived as a companion to the English-language edition of Octavio Paz’s magisterial study of Sor Juana. On its own, it will be welcomed as the first representative selection in English of her verse and prose.