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Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner

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Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner - Rudnick, Hans H, and Gogröf-Voorhees, Andrea
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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. Gogr???f-Voorhees explores the affinity between the two writers, which emerges from a juxtaposition of their formulations of the idea of a fractured, contradictory modernity ...

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Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner 2004, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, New York

ISBN-13: 9780820437934

2nd Revised edition

Hardcover