Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Ching-Hsien Wang. "Towards Defining a Chinese Heroism." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 95:25-35.

In the course of answering the critical judgment that there is no true epic in classical Chinese literature by showing that the poetry advocates a deliberate avoidance of arms, warfare, and therefore heroic action, he notes that many of the oral traditional patterns of the Shih Ching (see Wang 1974) continue to characterize the written poetry of later periods.
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