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 | | Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, V. 8) by Andrea Gogrof-Voorhees ISBN-10: 9780820437934 ISBN-10: 0-8204-3793-X ISBN-13: 9780820437934 ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-3793-4 Hardcover 1999-05 Peter Lang Publishing Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description 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. Gogrf-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. | ||