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 | | Las grandes almas que la muerte ausenta, de injurias de los años vengadora, libra, ¡oh gran don Iosef! |
 | | Framed as a legal defense of women, recalling scenes of a woman’s legal defense in sentimental romances, such as Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor, typically accused of seducing an honest man and then defended by allegorical characters, Love, Reason, Logic. |
 | | This idea is brought up again and reversed in Epistolary Ballad where the accused is the man. Epistolary Ballad (173-9): self representation, both accepting and mocking the idea, as a Phoenix as a unique creature whose voice, according to the Greek myth, makes the Sun god stop and listen. |
| www.columbia.edu /itc/spanish/latinhum/SorJuanaMainPoints.doc (450 words) |
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