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Constructing an Icon: The Self-Referentiality and Framing of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

This article examines the ways in which Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's rhetorical selfrepresentations, especially in her portrait poems, coincide with and challenge two visual representations of her that accompanied volumes of her work published in Spain. Because of her unique subjectivity as a nun fro...

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Published in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 28 - 57
Main Author: Prendergast, Ryan
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Fall/Winter2007
Subjects:
Juana Ines de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695
Poets
Legal self-representation
Criticism
Nuns
Mexico
Spain
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