El cultismo léxico en la obra poética de Rubén Darío

Abstract

The present study, entitled El cultismo léxico en la obra poética de Rubén Darío, aims to contribute to the historical study of cultismo and to assess the innovative capacity of Rubén Darío (1867-1916) in the development of a poetic language of his own. In the last two decades, very complete works have been published, in which, however, the cultism lexicon of Rubén Darío, master of modernist writers and, in general, of outstanding names in Hispanic literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is not contemplated. It was necessary to complete the chapter on cultism with a deeper knowledge of the function of this very important constitutive element in Rubén's poetry.The first difficulty that had to be overcome was the delimitation of cultism with respect to terms such as latinism or archaism. Likewise, it has been necessary to give a well founded answer on the ascription of cultism within the category of loanwords. Some criteria for the identification of cultisms have been established in the light of the main contributions on the subject in order to create a corpus that would allow us to meet the proposed objectives...