Introduction: The aesthetics of modernism
Presuppositions and varieties of aesthetic experience
Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the autonomy of art
Aesthetics of fragmentation in Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt
Nora's departure and the aesthetics of dependency
Henry James and the emergence of the major phase
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the language of the future
Conflict and mediation in James Joyce's The dead
Intransitive love in Rainer Maria Rilke's The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.