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Author_David Meyer
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Poetics
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- ISBN 9781614515258
- Weight: 818g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2013
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
