Early Tahitian Poetics
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Author / Creator: | Meyer, David Verfasser |
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Imprint: | Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton 2013 |
Description: | Online-Ressource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Pacific Linguistics [PL] 641 Pacific Linguistics PL ; 641 |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12389438 |
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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Item Description: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
ISBN: | 9781614513759 1614513759 9781614515258 1614515255 |