Early Tahitian Poetics / / 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 paralleli...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] ,
641 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (446 p.) |
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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 |
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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. |
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. |