Defining modernism
Subtitle: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on romanticism, modernity, decadence, and Wagner
By: Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees.
Series: Studies in literary criticism and theory ;; vol. 8; Studies in literary criticism and theory ;; v. 8.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Modernism (Literature); Romanticism.; Decadence (Literary movement); Wagner, Richard,
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.

Gogrof-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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.