Defining Modernism

Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner
2. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8204-3793-4
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: 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. Gogröf-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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gogröf-Voorhees, Andrea

Über Autor(innen)

The Author: Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees is Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University. She holds a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington. Her main areas of interest are nineteenth-century French and German literature, literary theory, and philosophy.