Meyer Early Tahitian Poetics

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61451-375-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 461 Seiten

Reihe: ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Students with an Interest in Poetics, Oral Traditions, and Polynesian Languages and Literatures

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Contents;9
3;Tables and figures;14
4;Chapter 1. Introduction;17
5;Chapter 2. Meter;57
6;Chapter 3. Sound Parallelism;128
7;Chapter 4. Syntactic and semantic parallelism;177
8;Chapter 5. Manner of composition;261
9;Chapter 6. Summary and interpretation;360
10;Chapter 7. Conclusion;390
11;Appendix A. List of grammatical abbreviations;401
12;Appendix B. The pattern detection process;403
13;Appendix C. Automated method for pre- and post-1850 assignment;430
14;References;441
15;Index;452

Über Autor(innen)

David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.