Defining Modernism
Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner
©2004
Monographs
X,
204 Pages
Series:
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Volume 8
Summary
Defining Modernism investigates the intellectual connections among three leading nineteenth-century European modernists – Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Richard Wagner. Through a close reading of Baudelaire’s and Nietzsche’s essays on art and culture, Wagner’s role in the two writers’ attempts to define the radically new concept of «modernism» is elucidated. Gogröf-Voorhees explores the affinity between the two writers, which emerges from a juxtaposition of their formulations of the idea of a fractured, contradictory modernity that at once embraces, scatters, and reevaluates an entire constellation of ideas, including romanticism, pessimism, decadence, and nihilism.
Details
- Pages
- X, 204
- Publication Year
- 2004
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820437934
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Richard Wagner Nietzsche Wagner Baudelaire
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1999, 2004. X, 204 pp.
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