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Chapter 2 - La lírica del Fénix: Sor Juana’s Poetic Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2024

By
Anna M. Nogar
Edited by
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra ,
Anna M. Nogar  and
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
Affiliation:
University of Houston
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Summary

The literary oeuvre of the seventeenth-century literary genius Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is genre-diverse: it includes plays, texts defending women’s intellectual agency, correspondence, religious-themed works, and, last but not least, poetry. Sor Juana’s texts are touchpoints for nearly all facets of colonial literary studies; her lyric works are invoked in critical conversations treating transatlantic studies, Barroco de Indias, New Spanish creolism, and feminist studies. Sor Juana’s lyric works evince not only her intellectual prowess, but also her artistic mastery of a variety of poetic forms, unequalled in her day or after her lifetime. This chapter examines the range of Sor Juana’s lyric writing in its totality, from her masterpiece, Primero sueño, to her renowned romances, redondillas, sonetos, and villancicos, contextualizing these in the scholarly and historical contexts out of which they arise.

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romanceredondillasonnetvillancicoPrimero sueñobarrococreolismtranslationCarta a Sor Filotea de la Cruzepigram
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A History of Mexican Poetry , pp. 36 - 54
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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