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