Early Tahitian Poetics
Folk poetry Language and culture Poetics Tahitian language Literature Poetry sähkökirjat Applied Linguistics Austronesian Languages Linguistics, Communication Studies LITERARY CRITICISM Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft TRAVEL
De Gruyter Mouton
2013
EISBN 9781614513759
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.
