The transformation of the figure of Mab in the “Queen’s Mab veil” (1887) by Rubén Darío and its meaning: an intertextual approach
Abstract
This article deals with a new intertextual perspective of the short story “Queen Mab’s veil” (1887) by Rubén Darío. I focus on Víctor Hugo's mediating function on the figure and work of William Shakespeare for the recreation of Darío's fairy Mab and on the figure of the artist and his creation that is represented in this story. I propose that Hugo’s mediating texts –La Préface de Cromwell (1827) and William Shakespeare (1864)– allowed Darío to transfer the theoretical aesthetic concepts in these essays to his own poetic understanding of the creative process and the poet and his version of the fairy. As a result of this mediation, in my analysis I include other romantic elements derived from the French author's reading of Shakespeare –such as the concept of “melancholic genius” or the creative imagination– along with the modernist elements in this short story.
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