Nietzsche, Chaucer, and the Sacrifice of Art

Author / Editor
Astell, Ann W.

Title
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.