Sor Juana of the Traps of Faith - Hardcover

Paz, O

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067482105X ISBN 13: 9780674821057

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1988

Synopsis

mark her uniqueness as a poet. To Paz her writings, like her life, epitomize the struggle of the individual, and in particular the individual woman, for creative fulfillment and self-expression."

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Review:

A sweeping and volcanic panorama. -- Richard Eder "Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Sor Juana" displays an extraordinary sweep of imagination and intelligence, and it is many things: a biography, a critical study, a re-creation of an era, a meditation on Mexican history, a dialogue of poet with poet, a reflection on the role of the intellectual in the modern world. -- Michael Wood "New York Review of Books" An admiring and sympathetic portrait, but an honest and demythologizing one, too...The "Sor Juana" Mr. Paz renders is irreducible to labels--saint, iconoclast, virago, feminist, neurotic. Her life, like the Viceregal culture that formed her and was formed by her, was brilliant, flawed and complex. She argued passionately for sexual equality and intellectual freedom, yet championed the same orthodoxies with which she struggled. -- Frederick Luciani "New York Times Book Review" history, a dialogue of poet with poet, a reflection on the role of the intellectual in the modern world.

From the Back Cover:

Sor Juana displays an extraordinary sweep of imagination and intelligence, and it is many things: a biography, a critical study, a re-creation of an era, a meditation of Mexican history, a dialogue of poet with poet, a reflection on the role of the intellectual in the modern world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 067482105X
• ISBN 13: 9780674821057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560