Early Tahitian Poetics
Autor: | David Meyer |
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EAN: | 9781614513759 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 27.11.2013 |
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Schlagworte: | Poetics; Oral Tradition; Polynesian Languages and Literature. |
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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.
David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.