Early Tahitian poetics / by David Meyer.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Meyer, David.

Series:

Pacific Linguistics [PL]

Pacific linguistics, 1448-8310 ; 641

Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; 641

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Tahitian language.

Folk poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Edinburgh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614513759

1614513759

OCLC:

1013941475