Early Tahitian poetics /
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| Author / Creator: | Meyer, David. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013. |
| Description: | xv, 446 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pacific linguistics, 1448-8310 ; 641 Pacific linguistics ; 641. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9799734 |
| 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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| Physical Description: | xv, 446 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781614515258 1614515255 9781614513759 9781614513766 |
| ISSN: | 1448-8310 ; |