Style, statistics and new models of authorship

Title: Style, statistics and new models of authorship
Creator: Craig, Hugh
Relation: Early Modern Literary Studies Vol. 15, Issue 1
Relation: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/15-1/craistyl.htm
Publisher: Sheffield Hallam University
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: In this essay I argue that humanities computing can change ideas about the role authors play within texts and can offer a path to a new conception of authorship. My focus is on computational stylistics in particular. The results of this practice tell us on a statistical basis that texts reflect the styles of their authors to a remarkable, perhaps unexpected, extent. The results do not support the idea that authors are insignificant as sources of meaning, but neither do they licence a return to an older idea of sovereign, hegemonic authors, as I hope to show. The findings of computational sylistics can serve to test theories about authorship and in turn to suggest modifications to those theories.
Subject: authorship; computational stylistics; textual discourse
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931126
Identifier: uon:11000
Identifier: ISSN:1201-2459
Language: eng
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