Early Tahitian Poetics
Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and paralleli...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin
De Gruyter Mouton
2013, ©2013
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| Series: | Pacific Linguistics
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Tahiti has a rich history of oral tradition. Early visitors to the island transcribed recitations of myth, battle address, and land description. Until now their poetic organization has remained unexplored. From a computationally assisted analysis, this book describes early use of meter and parallelism and speculates on manner of composition. It sheds light on a poetic style unanticipated for Polynesia and remarkable among world poetries. |
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| Physical Description: | XV, 446 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61451-375-9 |