Early Tahitian Poetics / / David Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Meyer, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 641
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Tables and figures --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. Meter --; Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism --; Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism --; Chapter 5. Manner of composition --; Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation --; Chapter 7. Conclusion --; Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations --; Appendix B. The pattern detection process --; Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614513759; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110637854; 9783110742961; 9783110317350; 9783110317244; 9783110317237
• ISSN: 1448-8310
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614513759
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Meyer.

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.