Blythe Courtney
Life of Sor Juana Research
This is a portrait of Sor Juana in her library.
It is a good source because it comes from a school, not a random website.
This is suitable for the project because, as there are no pictures of the time, the best we can do is portrait of Sor Juana.
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/39031.html
Another portrait of Sor Juana.
This is a good source because it from a museum, which has authenticated it.
This portrait is suitable for the project because it is a portrait she made of herself.
http://www.bne.es/es/AreaPrensa/MaterialGrafico/Exposiciones/Historico/2013/ElDespertar/
This is a picture of First Dream printed in Spanish
It is a good source because it is from the website of the National Library of Spain.
The picture is good to show how it would be printed in Spanish - allows the viewer to see what it looked like.
http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/culture/SorJuana/#biography
Multimedia website on the poetry of the seventeenth-century nun of New Spain (Nueva España) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Includes video clips.
This gives good background information of Sor Juana, not limited to birth year, family, and other basic information of her history.
This is a reputable source because it comes from Cambridge University.
It is a suitable website because it gives Key dates.
This is taken from my other school's digital library. I have the page on a word document if needed.
Title : Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Source: Magill’s Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition; January 2009, p1-5 Article Author: Piepke, Susan L.; Includes bibliography
This article gives background information of Sor Juana, Principal works, and an analysis of her poetry.
It is reputable because it comes from a college library database.
It is suitable for this project because it includes a biography and important works from Sor Juana
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-divine-lysis/
This is the Poem My Divine Lysis in both Spanish and English written by Sor Juana.
This poem is suitable for the project because it is her work - which she shows her adoration for the vicereine. This is also some of her poetry that gets her in trouble because it is not about God or the Church.
This website is about poems - which makes it suitable for a primary source. It also gives both translations, which gives you the slow in Spanish and the translation I can understand.
This is the Spanish version of the poem First Dream.
It is a credible site for this project because it is a website dedicated to poems in Spanish from many Countries.
The Poem is important to the project because we are using it for a primary source to show the desire to understand the world.
This is the Spanish version of_ Respuesta de la poetisa a la muy ilustre
Sor Filotea de la Cruz_
This is a primary source that Sor Juana wrote in response to Sor Filotea.
This website is acceptable because it is from Dartmouth University that is promoted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
http://www.poemas-del-alma.com/sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz.htm
This is a picture of the monument to Sor Juana in Madrid
This is a picture we used to show on the slide about her death and legacy. This picture seems to fit the fact that she is dead and left a legacy.
The website is a poem website that contains different pictures/portraits of Sor Juana and monuments to her. The pictures are real sites, which is good for this kind of research.
Cruz, Juana Inés De La. A Sor Juana Anthology. Translated by Alan S. Trueblood. Edited by Octavio Paz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
This anthology is a compilation of some of Sor Juana’s most significant works as well as history and context provided by the editor and translator. It also provides summaries of some of her poems in prose-form to clarify certain points in her flow of thought.
It is useful to the project because it gives clarity to her poems.
This is a good book for academics because it is an anthology book that gives history, poems, and details of said poems.
