Early Tahitian Poetics

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.

About the author

David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.

Product details

• Authors: David Meyer
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781614515258
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-525-8
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 30 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w ill., 12 b/w tbl.
• Series: Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [Pl]; Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [PL]; ISSN; Pacific Linguistics [PL], 641
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures