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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Defining Modernism
• Subtitle: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner
• Author: Andrea Gogroef-Voorhees
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 201
• EAN: 9780820437934
• ISBN: 9780820437934
• ID: 10020787
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 414 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 236 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2004

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