Books by "José María Vargas Vila"
12 books found
Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica
by David Diaz-Arias, Ronny Viales Hurtado, Juan José Marín Hernández
2018 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality. Several social and institutional problems have risen during the last decades, but the country still maintains good social and health indicators. Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Costa Rica.
A sweeping intellectual history of the relationship between literary translation, authoritarian politics, linguistic ideologies, juristic philology, religion, and poetry in late nineteenth-century Colombia.
Women’s Representations from Radical Naturalism to the New Woman Response
by José F. Rojas-Viana
2024 · Vernon Press
In this book, Rojas explores comparatively the representations of deviant and criminal women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from Transatlantic perspectives in literary productions of the first-wave feminist writers of the New Woman movement and writers of Radical Naturalism. This work addresses how the writers' sex is relevant in depictions of social constructions of female characters and how they established a dialogue based on gender through the themes of 'femme fatale', marginal spaces, eugenics, and social Darwinism in the novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán's 'La piedra angular' (1891), 'La gota de sangre' (1911), and "Tio Terrones" (1920); Refugio Barragán de Toscano's 'La hija del bandido o los subterráneos del nevado' (1887); Federico Gamboa's 'Santa' (1903); Kate Chopin's (Katherine O'Flaherty) 'The Awakening' (1899); Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' (1891); and 'Grand's Ideala' (1888). There is a good volume of research on different aspects of these novels, but this book addresses issues of the social constructions of deviant and criminal women from an interdisciplinary and metatheoretical perspective often missed from established criticism. This work is not only reachable for the non-expertise reader, graduate, or undergraduate students but also it is sufficiently elaborated for the expert reader in different fields. It provides a detailed analysis of the social, historical, philosophical, and scientific background that shows how the treatment of the female characters converges and diverges from male and female writers of the New Woman and Radical Naturalism points of view. It can be a good contribution for references or classes in Hispanic studies, gender studies, women's studies, sexuality studies, nineteenth-century studies, and in other fields.
Reunimos en esta edici n la m s completa que se ha elaborado hasta la fecha, la totalidad de la obra en verso y prosa de Jos Asunci n Silva, incluso algunos textos que se le atribuyen: la correspondencia en la que se presentan cartas desconocidas rescatadas por Ricardo Cano Gaviria y las traducciones en prosa que hab an sido omitidas en repertorios anteriores. el an lisis de la po tica silviana es presentada en tres ensayos escritos por Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda, Eduardo Camacho Guizado y Alfredo Roggiano. Las prosas de Silva reciben tambi n atenci n especial en dos ensayos escritos por Ricardo Cano Gaviria y Rafael Guti rrez Girardot.