Octavio Paz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Studies in Biography, Poetry, and Poetics

Roberto Cantú (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5979-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the poetic and intellectual worlds of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998), two Mexican writers separated by centuries, yet united by their defiance of religious and political orthodoxies. Sor Juana challenged the Counter-Reformation's strictures in seventeenth-century New Spain, while Paz rejected Stalinist communism before and after World War II. Both were masterful poets and essayists, fluent in multiple languages and literary traditions. Through biography, poetry, and poetics, the book examines Paz's biography of Sor Juana (1982) and analyzes their landmark poems, Sor Juana's El Sueño (1692) and Paz's Blanco (1966). Despite their beauty and universal themes, both works have been deemed obscure by critics. This study includes an English translation and the original Spanish text of El Sueño, offering extensive analyses and connecting ancient, Renaissance, colonial, and modern influences for students, scholars, and attentive readers of poetry.

Roberto Cantú is Professor Emeritus of English, and jointly Professor Emeritus of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1974 to 2019 he taught courses on World and Latin American Literatures, and on Mexican American, Mexican, and Mesoamerican Literatures. He is the translator from English to Spanish of José Antonio Villarreal's novel Pocho (1994), and the author of José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho: A Mexican American Novel and its Tragic Plot (2022). He has edited several books, including The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination (2014); The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel (2015); Mexican Mural Art: Critical Essays on a Belligerent Aesthetic (2021), and Alfredo Véa's Narrative Trilogy: Studies on La Maravilla, The Silver Cloud Café, and Gods Go Begging (2023). In 1990 Cantú received Cal State LA's Outstanding Professor Award. In 2010 he was recognized at his home campus with the President's Distinguished Professor Award.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5979-9 / 1036459799
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5979-6 / 9781036459796
Zustand	Neuware