The autos sacramentales of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Natural Philosophy and Sacramental Theology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 April 2018
- ISBN 9780198816829
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 223x148x17 mm
- Weight 364 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume surveys the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America. Focussing on her three religious plays, it analyses the role of early scientific ideas in her literary works.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) was the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America.The autos sacramentales, or Eucharistic plays are some of her least studied, and most perplexing works. While one of them, El divino Narciso, has received substantial scholarly attention, the other two, El cetro de José and El mártir del Sacramento, San Hermenegildo, have been critically neglected in Sor Juana studies. This study presents a full-length analysis of all three plays, along with their loas, or the introductory pieces alongside which they were intended to be performed. Furthermore, the study seeks to place these works in their philosophical and cultural context by exploring their engagement both with orthodox Catholic sacramental theology, and the emergence of empiricism and the New Philosophy across the Hispanic world.
The three sections of this book each present significant new readings of the three plays. The study of El divino Narciso employs a previously little-known source to illuminate its Christological readings, as well as Sor Juana's engagement with notions of wit and conceptism. The analysis of El cetro de José explores her presentation of different approaches to perception to emphasise the importance of both the material and the transcendent to a holistic understanding of the Sacraments. The final section, on San Hermenegildo, explores the influence on the play of the Christianised Stoicism of Justus Lipsius, and demonstrates how Sor Juana used the work to attempt her most ambitious reconciliation of an empirical approach to natural philosophy and the material world with a Neostoic approach to Christian morality and orthodox Catholic sacramental theology.
Ambitious in scope ... Brooke's text is significant because her scholarship focuses on an area that has been overlooked. In this way, her research fills a gap in sorjuanista scholarship.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Sacramental Theology and Natural Philosophy in the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Divine Reflections: The Wit of El divino Narciso
Bread of Heaven: Types and Figures in El Cetro de José
The Constant Prince: Neostoicism and Natural Philosophy in El mártir del sacramento, San Hermenegildo
