The Retelling of Astonishment of the Vice of Paradoxography in Costa Rican Literature
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publication Date: | 2014 |
| Description: | The paradoxography is a discursive genre that emerged in Classical Greece. It deals with de occurrence of unusual phenomena that produce amazement and uncertainty. Traces of this narrative genre are present in world literature, mainly in the fantastic, Gothic and Science Fiction. The following article investigates the presence of the paradoxagraphy in Costa Rican narrative. It considers the exaggerated concerning travel literature written by Berta María Feo. Also it includes issues related to mirabilia present in several narrators such as Joaquín García Monge, Fabián Dobles, Fernando Contreras, Rafael Ángel Herra and Alexánder Obando, among others. |
| Country: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Language: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/16199 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/16199 |
| Keyword: | paradoxography Greek literature Costa Rican narrative fantastic literature Gothic literature paradoxografía literatura griega narrativa costarricense literatura fantástica literatura gótica |