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 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 that at once embraces, scatters, and reevaluates an entire constellation of ideas, including romanticism, pessimism, decadence, and nihilism.
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2004
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English
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18077963622
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
2004
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English
Alibris ID:
17880552930
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 082043793X. Light rubbing and toning overall. Interior pages clean and unmarked. A tight and clean copy. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; Studies In Literary Criticism And Theory; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 201 pages.