Early Tahitian Poetics:
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1. Verfasser: Meyer, David Francis (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston De Gruyter 2013
Schriftenreihe:Pacific Linguistics PL.
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Beschreibung: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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (462 pages)
ISBN:1614513759
9781614513759

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