From “figurant” people to protagonist:  the tribute poem in El cantar de los oficios (2015), by Carlos Manuel Villalobos

 

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Egileak: Cuvardic García, Dorde, Chaves Jaén, Cristian
Formatua: artículo original
Egoera:Versión publicada
Argitaratze data:2025
Deskribapena:The tribute poems have had artistic and intellectual figures to their object of reflection: However, and mainly since the 20th century, panegyrics to the working subject have begun to proliferate.  The objective of this article is to offer an analysis of the collection of poems El cantar de los oficios (2015), by Carlos Manuel Villalobos, from the generic coordinate of the poetic portrait, in particular, from the praise of the people´s trades, as an individuality and as a collective.  Thanks to the poetic discourse, the people, in tribute to their work performance, go from being an extra to a protagonist, this collection of poems is analyzed from different levels, all of them at the service of the mentioned objective:  the textual, the linguistic, the stylistic (rhetorical), the external formal (versification), the semantic or thematic, the intertextual and the declarative.  
Herria:Portal de Revistas UCR
Erakundea:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Hizkuntza:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/177
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rpensamiento-actual/article/view/177
Gako-hitza:social poetry
folk
Costa Rican poetry
tribute poem
conversational poetry
poesía social
pueblo
poesía costarricense
poesía encomiástica
poesía conversacional