%0 Journal Article 
%A Méndez, Sigmund
%T Sueño y destino en El Desengaño en un sueño del Duque de Rivas

%D 2013
%@ 2173-0687
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/15807
%X In this article, two main issues of the Duke of Rivas’s El desengaño en un sueño
are studied. Firstly, it presents the thematic of dream in a panoramic revision including
its ancient values as prognosis and its topic disposition in the probable sources used
by Rivas. The proposed reading displays the significant and metatheatrical dimension
of dream emphasizing its relevance to Romantic literature and exposing some specific
symbols employed by the poet. Secondly, intermixed with the dream, the polemical
matter of «fatalism» is analyzed under the light of ancient theories on the predetermined
individual character and it is contextualized within the «Romantic pessimism», developed
in philosophy by Schopenhauer. In this way, the critical approach attempts to comprehend
this Rivas’s «favorite» work relating it to the aesthetic and historic streams to which it
belongs, ascetic-pessimistic idealism and transcendental Romantic oneirism, stressing
its importance for the Spanish theatre as a fantastic drama.

%K Rivas
%K El desengaño en un sueño
%K sueño
%K destino
%K simbolismo
%K pesimismo
%K drama fantástico
%K dream
%K destiny
%K symbolism
%K pessimism
%K fantastic drama
%~ Universidad de Cádiz