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Described by one critic as “a cosmic meditation on epistemology” in the tradition of Luís de Góngora, “the Sueño shows Sor Juana to be her master’s equal in the creation of intricate, allusive, and ambiguous verse, and perhaps his superior in philosophical depth.”

I am especially interested in the poem’s reference to the magic lantern, as this relates to multiple webessays I have planned on 17th-century optical technologies and baroque self-fashioning.

RELATES TO: the GALLERY exhibit on Sor Juana’s portraiture; the GALLERY exhibit on the engraved frontispiece to Chambers’ Cyclopædia, with its picturing of a magic lantern; another LIBRARY digital edition of Sor Juana’s work, the “filosofías de cocina” (philosophies of the kitchen) passage from her Respuesta (LIB. CAT. NO. JUA1691); a series of IN BRIEF essays on 17th-century optical technologies; PLAYERS webessays on Cornelis Drebbel, Margaret Cavendish, and Athanasius Kircher; the GALLERY exhibit on Athanasius Kircher’s Ars Magna Sciendi; a forthcoming pdf on Hooke’s camera designs (also for the LIBRARY)


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	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s metaphysical dreamscape, Primero Sueño Described by one critic as “a cosmic meditation on epistemology” in the tradition of Luís de Góngora, “the Sueño shows Sor Juana to be her master’s equal in the creation of intricate, allusive, and ambiguous verse, and perhaps his superior in philosophical depth.” I am especially interested in the poem’s reference to the magic lantern, as this relates to multiple webessays I have planned on 17th-century optical technologies and baroque self-fashioning. RELATES TO: the GALLERY exhibit on Sor Juana’s portraiture; the GALLERY exhibit on the engraved frontispiece to Chambers’ Cyclopædia, with its picturing of a magic lantern; another LIBRARY digital edition of Sor Juana’s work, the “filosofías de cocina” (philosophies of the kitchen) passage from her Respuesta (LIB. CAT. NO. JUA1691); a series of IN BRIEF essays on 17th-century optical technologies; PLAYERS webessays on Cornelis Drebbel, Margaret Cavendish, and Athanasius Kircher; the GALLERY exhibit on Athanasius Kircher’s Ars Magna Sciendi; a forthcoming pdf on Hooke’s camera designs (also for the LIBRARY)
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