![]() ![]() Other features are extravagance, intricacy, and a sense of artificiality-in contrast to the art of the Renaissance, which it followed chronologically and which strove for harmony, order, and verisimilitude. The Baroque is characterized by ideological, semantic, and syntactic asymmetry. In addition to sonnets and many other types of verse, Sor Juana penned several plays (dealing with both the religious and the mundane), composed songs, and wrote prose that was revolutionary for the time, such as her “Reply to Sor Philothea.” Events in History at the Time of the Letter The Baroque in Latin Americaįrom the middle of the sixteenth century until the end of the seventeenth century, first in Italy, Germany, and Holland, and then in Spain and its American colonies, “the Baroque” was the dominant style in the creative arts. Her death from the plague on April 17, 1695, contributed to the demise of the Baroque era in Spanish- American literature. ![]() According to many scholars, Sor Juana, who became known as the “Mexican Phoenix” and “Tenth Muse,” was the greatest poet of the Spanish language in this era. A collection of her poetry, Inundation Castálida (Castalian Inundation), was published in Spain in 1689. Once recuperated, she entered the Convent of San Jerónimo in 1668 where she professed on February 24, 1669, under the religious name Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Although she enjoyed many favors during her life at court, after five years she joined the Carmelite convent in Mexico City, which she was forced to leave for reasons of ill health. Upon her grandfather’s death in 1656 Juana’s mother sent her to live in Mexico City with her aunt, and in 1664 she became a lady-in-waiting to and protégée of the Viceroy’s wife, doña Leonor María Carreto, the Marquise de Mancera. The out-of-wedlock daughter of Isabel Ramirez de Santillana and Pedro Manuel de Asbaje y Vargas Machuca, the young Juana Inés was raised at the hacienda of her maternal grandfather Pedro Ramirez de Santillana, where she quickly demonstrated prodigious talents and exceptional intellectual ability. Juana Ramírez de Asbaje was born on the hacienda of San Miguel Nepantla, near Mexico City, the capital of New Spain, probably in 1648. A letter written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the Convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City dated Ma published posthumously in Spanish (as “Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz”) in 1700, in English in 1981.Ī defense of women’s right to study secular and religious texts, the “Reply to Sor Philothea” offers a unique look into the life and views of the most important writer of New Spain.Įvents in History at the Time of the Letter ![]()
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