Modernism - Literary Movements, Decadence & Aestheticism - Literary Movements, French Poetry - Literary Criticism, Wagner, Richard, 19th Century German Philosophy, Romanticism, 19th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism, German Opera
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Investigates the intellectual connections among three leading 19th 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 their attempts to define the radically new concept of modernism is elucidated. The author 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 romananticism, pessimism, decadence, and nihilism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 2004
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1999.
Pages
211
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820437934