Sister joan agnes of the cross was born on 12 november 1651. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. She wrote in such traditional forms of spanish poetry. Podras ver y comprar sus nuevos y ultimos libros, novedades, packs especiales, descargar su libro digital en pdf o epub, obras y sagas del autor. She was known in her lifetime as the tenth muse, or the phoenix of america. Su obra fue muy original realizando lirica y dramatica con influencia del barroco espanol. We are honored to present to you the greatest poet the american continent produced in the seventeenth century. The wavering in sor juanas work between a rejection of the conventionalfeminine woman as a manmade category which we saw in poem 48 and a revindication of femininity as separate and unique, is perhaps best illustrated by comparing two poems which she writes about the rose, one in the courtly tradition, and one towards the end of her life. Sor juana became a nun in 1667 and devoted herself to the study of science and poetry.
Jerome on february 21, and remains there until her death. She was a selftaught scholar and poet of the baroque school, and hieronymite nun of new spain, known in her lifetime as the tenth muse. The department of spanish and portuguese dartmouth college hanover, new hampshire. The ul has two or three copies of this, some in english eg. She was born november 12, 1651, in san miguel nepantla, a. This chapter applies the related ideas of heterodoxy and paradox to sor juanas personal understanding of her catholic faith. The wavering in sor juana s work between a rejection of the conventionalfeminine woman as a manmade category which we saw in poem 48 and a revindication of femininity as separate and unique, is perhaps best illustrated by comparing two poems which she writes about the rose, one in the courtly tradition, and one towards the end of her life.
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