Partidas epistémicas de los estudios crítico-literarios en Costa Rica

Abstract

This article details the birth of the study of literary criticism in Costa Rica beginning with its appearance at the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth century. The "revision" of this academia genre is relevant because it offeres the operative key and the ideological representation that make posible the understanding of the process of canonization and the abandonment of Catholicism in the literature of the nation. It begins with the first anthologies of Costan Rican poetry and the national polemics of 1894. Then the author considers the first published esthetic studies of the country. The participating authors include: Antonio Zambrana, Moisés Vincenzi, Rafael Estrada, Justo Facio, Rogelio Sotela y Roberto Brenes Mesén. The “crocean” idealism and the French impressionists critique operate as orienting espitomological codes. From this are assigned the processes of internal ideological adaptation that facilitates the use of literature as an educational model.