Title: Defining modernism
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Wagner, Richard,, Modernism (Literature), Decadence (Literary movement), Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, Wagner, richard, 1813-1883, Baudelaire, charles, 1821-1867, Nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900
People: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
LC classification: PN56.M54 G64 1999