Lenguaje insuficiente, colores suficientes: El azul en Becquer y Novalis

This dissertation focuses on the use of the color blue in the writings of Gustavo Adolfo Becquar and Novalis. According to the Romantic concept of language as a medium that is inadequate to communicate poetry, the Romantic poet cannot express what he or she sees in the state of "inspiration". In the associated states of dreaming and of inspiration, the color blue is the instrument that allows the poet to "paint" the product of that inspiration.; The dissertation takes a comparative approach. A study of both authors shows that they attach similar poetic meaning to the image of the color blue. In both writers, the arts of painting and music are allied wit literature in order to achieve a "total" art, which can surmount the inadequacy of verbal language to which both Becquer and Novalis allude. The dissertation relates all three arts, but focuses on the use of color---particularly "blue" and its related concepts---in Becquer's prose and poetry and in Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. The study takes into account concepts common to Romantic writers and painters in Spain and Germany.