Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Contributor(s): Finley, Sarah (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496211790 ISBN-13: 9781496211798 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 17th Century - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Music | History & Criticism - General |
Dewey: 861.3 |
LCCN: 2018017412 |
Series: New Hispanisms |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 252 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Hearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-95). A voracious autodidact, Sor Juana engaged with early modern music culture in a way that resonates deeply in her writing. Despite the privileging of harmony within Sor Juana's work, however, links between the poet's musical inheritance and subjects such as acoustics, cognition, writing, and visual art have remained unexplored. These lacunae have marginalized nonmusical aurality and contributed to the persistence of both ocularcentrism and a corresponding visual dominance in scholarship on Sor Juana--and indeed in early modern cultural production in general. |