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Copia in The Book of Songs

Yiwei Guo

Abstract


Copia, an important rhetorical concept, refers to the copious style in both expression and subject-matter, signifying full-ness, abundance, or variety. Erasmus, one of the fi nest scholars and a signifi cant fi gure in patristics and ancient literature, addressed it systematically for the fi rst time. From the perspective of Copia, this essay examines The Book of Songs, the earliest anthology of Chinese poetry and a major document in the Confucian tradition. Copia is aptly illustrated in The Book of Songs and is a powerful strategy to generate richness in both expression and subject-matter, which may serve as a catalyst to employ prominent Western rhetorical theories to investigate Chinese traditional classics, stimulating the implementation of Copia in people’s writing.

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Copia; The Book of Songs; Abundance of expression; Abundance of subject-matter

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i9.8103

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