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Article: Sentence and solas in the writer's craft of The Canterbury Tales and The Peony Pavilion.
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- East-West Connections
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Abstract
I stress the importance of Chaucer's criteria of sentence and solas set out in The Canterbury Tales to the vital role literature has played across cultures in shaping our own understanding of the human being. Although these literary criteria are characteristically associated with Chaucer, Ishow that authors of literary works in other cultures also employ them. Specifically I focus on a Chinese work written by Tang Xianzu in 1598 entitled The Peony Pavilion. I offer a reading of The Peony Pavilion in terms of sentence and solas, but I do not claim that Tang was intentionally trying to meet a standard set by an English writer almost two hundred years ...
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