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Versification and Authorship Attribution

Author :  Petr Plechac

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Country
Czech Republic
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
ISBN 9788024648712
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2022
Bib. Info 98 p,140 x 203mm
Categories Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
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A clever investigation into two unsolved mysteries of poetic authorship. The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem's author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse. Using poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plechac asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests his findings on two unsolved literary mysteries. In the first, Plechac distinguishes the parts of the Elizabethan verse play The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Shakespeare from those written by his coauthor, John Fletcher. In the second, he seeks to solve a case of suspected forgery: how authentic was a group of poems first published as the work of the nineteenth-century Russian author Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov? This book of poetic investigation should appeal to literary sleuths the world over.

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