%0 Book
%A Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees
%A Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees
%D 2021
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Defining Modernism
%B Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098419
%X 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.
%K Richard Wagner, Nietzsche, Wagner, Baudelaire
%G English