Nietzsche, Chaucer, and the Sacrifice of Art
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann W.
Nietzsche, Chaucer, and the Sacrifice of Art
- Published
- Chaucer Review 39 (2005): 323-40.
- Description
- Reads ManPT, ParsPT, and Ret in light of the Dionysian/Apollonian opposition posed by Nietzsche in "The Birth of Tragedy Out of Music." Whereas Nietzsche treated the two as irreconcilable, Chaucer combines them in "an ethical aesthetics and an aesthetic ethics."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Retraction.