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Early Tahitian Poetics
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
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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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David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.
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Contents
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Tables and figures
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. Meter
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Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism
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Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism
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Chapter 5. Manner of composition
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Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation
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Chapter 7. Conclusion
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Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations
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Appendix B. The pattern detection process
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Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment
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References
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Index
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eBook published on:
November 27, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9781614513759
Hardcover published on:
October 30, 2013
Hardcover ISBN:
9781614515258
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Front matter:
15
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446
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1
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12
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers and Students with an Interest in Poetics, Oral Traditions, and Polynesian Languages and Literatures.
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