Early Tahitian Poetics

ISBN-13: 9781614515258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 461 str.

David Meyer

Opis

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.

O autorze

David Meyer, Spanish Fork, Utah, USA.