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1st Edition

The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Edited By Emilie L. Bergmann, Stacey Schlau Copyright 2017
342 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations.  While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and... Read more

Table of Contents



Introduction. Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau



A Note About Conventions



I. Contexts



1. "The Empire and Mexico City: Religious, Political, and Social Institutions of a Transatlantic Enterprise." Alejandro Cañeque



2. "The Creole Intellectual Project: Creating the Baroque Archive." Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel



3. "The Gendering of Knowledge in New Spain: Enclosure, Women’s Education, and Writing." Stephanie Kirk



II. Reception History



4. "Seventeenth Century Dialogues: Transatlantic Readings of Sor Juana." Mónica Díaz



5. "Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Readings: Hagiography and Nationalism." Martha Lilia Tenorio



6. "Twentieth Century Readings: Schons, Pfandl, and Paz." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling



7. "Passionate Advocate: Sor Juana, Feminisms, and Sapphic Loves." Amanda Powell



8. "Translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Ideology and Interpretation." Isabel Gómez



9. "’My original, a woman’: Copies, Origins, and Sor Juana’s Iconic Portraits." J. Vanessa Lyon



10. "Contemporary Mexican Sor Juanas: Artistic, Popular, and Scholarly." Emily Hind



III. Interpretations of and Debates about the Works



A. Prose Works



11. "The Afterlife of a Polemic: Conflicts and Discoveries Regarding Sor Juana’s Letters." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling



12. "Challenging Theological Authority: The Carta Atenagórica /Crisis de un sermón and the Respuesta a sor Filotea." Grady Wray



B. Verse



13. "Sor Juana’s Love Poetry: A Woman’s Voice in a Man’s Genre." Emilie L. Bergmann



14. "Sor Juana’s Romances: Between Fame, Contemplation, and Celebration." Rocío Quispe-Agnoli



15. "Philosophical Sonnets: Through a Baroque Lens." Luis Avilés



16. "Primero sueño: Heresy and Knowledge." Alessandra Luiselli.



C. Theater and Public Art



17. "Writing for the Public Eye: Theatrical Production, Church Spectacle, and State-Sponsored Art (The Neptuno alegórico)." Verónica Grossi



18. "Sor Juana as Lyricist and Musical Theorist." Mario Ortiz



19. "Loa to El Divino Narciso: The Costs of Critiquing the Conquest." Ivonne del Valle



20. "The Autos: Theology on Stage." Linda Egan



21. "Los empeños de una casa: Staging Gender." Susana Hernández Araico



22. "Recently Discovered Plays: La segunda Celestina and Amor es más laberinto." Guillermo Schmidhuber



IV. Future Directions for Research



23. "Understudied Aspects of Canonical Works and Potential Approaches to Little-Studied Works." George Antony Thomas



Works Cited

Biography

Emilie L. Bergmann is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley, with fields of specialization in early modern Spain and Spanish America.



Stacey Schlau is Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

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