Attributing Authorship: An IntroductionCambridge University Press, 2002 M06 20 - 271 pages Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing, and have been given a powerful new impetus by advances in statistical studies of language and the coming on line of large databases of texts in machine-searchable form. The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years. It covers both traditional and computer based approaches to attribution, and evaluates each in respect of their potentialities and limitations. It revisits a number of famous controversies, including those concerning the authorship of the Homeric poems, books from the Old and New Testaments, and the plays of Shakespeare. Written with wit as well as erudition Attributing Authorship will make this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars alike. |
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... attribution . Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing , and have been given a powerful new impetus by advances in statistical studies of language and the coming on line of large databases of ...
... attribution . Yet these questions remain urgent and important for any historical study of writing , and have been given a powerful new impetus by advances in statistical studies of language and the coming on line of large databases of ...
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... Computing Modern Language Review Notes and Queries Papers of the Modern Language Association of America Studies in Bibliography Times Literary Supplement Introduction This book sets out to mediate from a literary vii List of Abbreviations.
... Computing Modern Language Review Notes and Queries Papers of the Modern Language Association of America Studies in Bibliography Times Literary Supplement Introduction This book sets out to mediate from a literary vii List of Abbreviations.
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... attribution studies which has been done over the last four decades and a much older tradition of such studies , which , considered as an organised scholarly enterprise , reaches back as far as the great library of Alexandria and ...
... attribution studies which has been done over the last four decades and a much older tradition of such studies , which , considered as an organised scholarly enterprise , reaches back as far as the great library of Alexandria and ...
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... attribution studies . A need to move beyond traditional techniques for dealing with such cases led me to the genial door of John Burrows , who from the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle , New ...
... attribution studies . A need to move beyond traditional techniques for dealing with such cases led me to the genial door of John Burrows , who from the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle , New ...
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... studies at the close of the 1960s by Barthes's " The death of the author ' and Foucault's response in ' What is an author ? ' and far from concluded by Seán Burke's The Death and Return of the Author.4 ... attribution studies Introduction 3.
... studies at the close of the 1960s by Barthes's " The death of the author ' and Foucault's response in ' What is an author ? ' and far from concluded by Seán Burke's The Death and Return of the Author.4 ... attribution studies Introduction 3.
Contents
Individuality and sameness | 4 |
Historical survey | 14 |
Defining authorship | 32 |
External evidence | 51 |
Internal evidence | 79 |
Stylistic evidence | 98 |
Gender and authorship | 119 |
Craft and science | 132 |
Bibliographical evidence | 163 |
Forgery and attribution | 179 |
Shakespeare and Co | 194 |
Arguing attribution | 209 |
Notes | 228 |
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