The Retelling of Astonishment of the Vice of Paradoxography in Costa Rican Literature

 

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Upphovsman: Villalobos Villalobos, Carlos
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2014
Beskrivning: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.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisation:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Språk:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/16199
Länkar:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/16199
Nyckelord:paradoxography
Greek literature
Costa Rican narrative
fantastic literature
Gothic literature
paradoxografía
literatura griega
narrativa costarricense
literatura fantástica
literatura gótica