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SYSNO ASEP 0549048 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type Monograph Title Versification and Authorship Attribution Author(s) Plecháč, Petr (UCL-M) RID, ORCID, SAI Issue data Prague: Institute of Czech Literature Prague: Karolinum Press, 2021 ISBN 978-80-7658-027-5978-80-246-4871-2 Number of pages 98 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords stylometry ; authorship attribution ; versification ; Shakespeare ; Fletcher ; Batenkov Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision OECD category Specific literatures R&D Projects GA17-01723S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support UCL-M - RVO:68378068 DOI 10.14712/9788024648903.1 Annotation 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 Plecháč asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests its findings on two unsolved literary mysteries. In the first, Plecháč 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. Workplace Institute of Czech Literature Contact Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address https://versologie.cz/versification-authorship/#chapAbout
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