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Preface to the Second Edition | p. vii |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Abbreviations | p. xxiii |
Chronology | p. xxiv |
Introduction | |
Sor Juana's Life and Work | p. 1 |
Juana Ramirez / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695): A Life Without and Within | p. 1 |
A Poet-Scholar: Sor Juana's Writing | p. 15 |
La Respuesta / The Answer: A Reading | p. 19 |
Sor Juana's Art and Argument | p. 19 |
The Issues at Stake | p. 25 |
A Different Worldview, a Different Law: A Woman-Centered Vision | p. 31 |
A Note on the Texts | p. 37 |
Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre | p. 38 |
The Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz | p. 39 |
Annotations to La Respuesta / The Answer | p. 106 |
Selected Poems | |
Introduction | p. 144 |
Romance: Prologo al lector / Ballad: Prologue to the Reader of these Poems | p. 154 |
Sonetos / Sonnets | |
Este, que ves, engano colorido | p. 158 |
This object which you see | p. 159 |
Si los riesgos del mar considerara | p. 158 |
With all the hazards of the sea in mind | p. 159 |
Esta tarde, mi bien, cuando te hablaba | p. 160 |
This afternoon, my darling, when we spoke | p. 161 |
Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo | p. 160 |
Don't leave me, shadow of elusive love | p. 161 |
<$$$>Que es esto, Alcino? | p. 162 |
What's this, Alcino? | p. 163 |
Mandas, Anarda, que sin llanto asista | p. 162 |
Anarda, you command me to observe | p. 163 |
Satira filosofica / Philosophical Satire | |
Hombres necios que acusais | p. 164 |
You foolish and unreasoning men | p. 165 |
Villancicos / Carols | |
For the Feast of the Assumption, 1676 | |
Vengan a ver una apuesta | p. 168 |
They're betting, so hurry for all that you're worth | p. 169 |
La soberana Doctora | p. 172 |
She is a sovereign Doctor | p. 173 |
Aquella Zagala | p. 174 |
That shepherd lass | p. 175 |
For the Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1691 | |
De una mujer se convencen | p. 178 |
The learned men of Egypt | p. 179 |
Rosa es, cuyo casto velo | p. 182 |
She is a Rose, and when she flowered | p. 183 |
Erase una Nina | p. 186 |
Once upon a time this Girl | p. 187 |
Romance epistolar / Epistolary Ballad | |
íValgate Apolo por hombre! | p. 190 |
Apollo help you, as you're a man! | p. 191 |
Romance decasilabo / Ballad in Variant Meter | |
Lamina sirva el Cielo al retrato | p. 202 |
Heavenly should be the canvas to bear the portrait | p. 203 |
Selected Bibliographies | |
Bibliography to the Second Edition | p. 207 |
Bibliography to the First Edition | p. 213 |
Appendix | |
Carta de Sor Filotea de la Cruz | p. 222 |
Letter from Sor Filotea de la Cruz | p. 223 |
Index | p. 232 |
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