Early Tahitian Poetics

Early Tahitian Poetics

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Author / Creator:Meyer, David Verfasser
Imprint:Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton 2013
Description:Online-Ressource
Language:English
Series:Pacific Linguistics [PL] 641
Pacific Linguistics PL ; 641
Subject:
Tahitian language.
Tahitian language.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12389438
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ISBN:9781614513759
1614513759
9781614515258
1614515255
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Summary:Biographical note: David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.
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.
Other form:Erscheint auch als 9781614513766
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Standard no.:9781614513759
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2016060217574
Table of Contents:
  • 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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