Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz: Selected Writings

by Juana Inés de la Cruz

Book Overview

The interest in Mexican Hieronimite nun, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz (1648-1695) is reaching extraordinary new levels. She has been the subject of plays, a feature film, scholarly conferences, books and articles. Nobel Laureate, poet Octavio Paz, has called her one of the great poets of the Spanish language and considers her Response to Sor Philotea de la Cruz to be the first intellectual autobiography in the Hispanic world. At her death in 1695, Sor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809105306
• ISBN13: 9780809105304
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"