Early Tahitian Poetics David Meyer

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Meyer, David [Verfasser]

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TextSeries: Pacific Linguistics PL ; 641Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton 2013Description: Online-RessourceContent type:

Text

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Computermedien

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Online-Ressource

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9781614513759
1614513759
9781614515258
1614515255

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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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Subject: Biographical note: David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.Subject: 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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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.

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