Early Tahitian Poetics
David MeyerTahiti 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.
Year:
2013
Publisher:
De Gruyter Mouton
Language:
english
Pages:
461
ISBN 10:
1614513759
ISBN 13:
9781614513759
Series:
Pacific Linguistics [PL]; 641
File:
PDF, 2.22 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013