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Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

by Juana Ines De La Cruz

  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Group
  • 13 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm

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__A bilingual edition of writings by Latin America's finest baroque poet__Sor 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.
Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings and Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
Sor Juana Ines De La CruzPoems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

  • Title

    Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

  • Author

    Juana Ines De La Cruz

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Penguin Group

  • Published

    March 1997

  • Weight

    246g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    13 x 19.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780140447033

  • ISBN-10

    0140447032

  • Eden Code

    5604917

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