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¿Valiente y viril? Masculinidades, cuerpo e identidad en la literatura costarricense (1888-1954)

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2022
The formative period of Costa Rican literature has been typically characterized within the productions of costumbrist realism that yearn for and promote the values of a traditional patriarchal society, which has founded central
Sergio Coto-Rivel
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Sisimique: Orígenes indígenas de un personaje del cuento popular costarricense

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015
Este fue el discurso de incorporación del profesor Constenla a la Academia Costarricense de la Lengua Española. Tiene que ver con la etimología de la palabra sisimique y el origen del personaje de la narrativa popular costarricense que lleva este nombre.
Adolfo Constenla Umaña
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Referencialidad e ironía en El crimen de Alberto Lobo, de Gonzalo Chacón Trejos (Referentiality and Irony in El crimen de Alberto Lobo, by Gonzalo Chacón Trejos)

Letras, 2017
El artículo analiza dos aspectos particulares de la novela El crimen de Alberto Lobo, de Gonzalo Chacón Trejos, que se postula como histórica. En primer lugar, se estudia la relación entre la construcción del universo ficcional y las condiciones propias ...
Gustavo Camacho Guzmán
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High point narrative structure in mother-child conversations about the past and children’s emergent literacy skills in Costa Rica

Actualidades en Psicología, 2013
. The relationship between narrative coherence in mother-child conversations about past events and children’s concurrent emergent literacy was examined in a sample of 32 Spanish-speaking, middle-class, Costa Rican mothers and their preschoolers ...
Alison Sparks, Ana María Carmiol-Barboza, Marcela Ríos   +2 more
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En una literatura sin figuras fundacionales, la propuesta perdida del escritor costarricense de fin de siglo Argüello Mora

Caravelle, 2019
The fin-de-siècle Costa Rican author Manuel Argüello Mora depicts the last days of Juan Rafael Mora Porras, president and leader of the 1856-1857 Campaña Nacional against filibuster William Walker in three literary works published in 1899.
Verónica Ríos Quesada
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Más abajo de la piel como contestación al racismo (Más abajo de la piel as a Response to Racism)

Letras, 2017
Se analiza la poética étnico-cultural de Más abajo de la piel, de Abel Pacheco, para destacar el tránsito de una visión negrista hacia una visión de la negritud.
Jorge Ramírez Caro
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Corpses and Capital: Narratives of Gendered Violence in Two Costa Rican Novels

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2008
In a region prone to violence and political corruption, Costa Rica has been touted as an ecological paradise, a stable democracy, and an egalitarian society.
Laura Barbas Rhoden
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Sponsorship sales is not only a sport, but an institutional business as well: evidence from two professional football clubs in Latin-America.

Estudios de Administración, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of institutionalization, legitimacy, learning behaviors, and other organizational characteristics on the efforts made by sport clubs signing sponsorship contracts.
José Francisco Navarro Picado
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Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

Revista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
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Funciones del presente histórico en dos textos narrativos tradicionales costarricenses

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020
The purpose of this article is to determine the funtions of the historical present in two traditional Costa Rican narrative texts. The analisis shows that there is not a single function of the historical present in these texts, but several, such as that
Adolfo Constenla Umaña
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