Defining Modernism Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner - Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory

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. Gogroef-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.

ISBN:	9780820437934
Publisher:	Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Imprint:	P. Lang
Published date:	05 Feb 2004
DEWEY:	809.9112
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	201
Weight:	414g
Height:	159mm
Width:	236mm
Spine width:	17mm

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