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
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
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,...
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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. David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA. 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
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
