Ebook: Early Tahitian Poetics
Author: David Meyer
- Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL], 641
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- Language: English
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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.
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