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The Three Secular Plays of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : A Critical Study /

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most i...

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Auteur principal: Schmidhuber de la Mora, Guillermo
Autres auteurs: Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695, Peña Doria, Olga Martha
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she might continue her learning. One of the most influential early feminists in the New World, she answered a bishop's criticism in a letter that has become a classic defense of the education of women. She collected a private library of 4,000 volumes, but when she was told that her studies were delaying the progress of her spiritual education, she.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9780813157467