Attributing Authorship
An Introduction
Published on 20. June 2002
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-521-78339-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Drawing on a wide range of authorship studies and thoroughly conversant with the methods discussed, Love is essential reading for anyone investigating the authorship of a document or evaluating the evidence behind an attribution."-MLA: Literary Research Guide
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
609 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-78339-2 (9780521783392)
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12/2004
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Cambridge University Press
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Person
Harold Love is Professor of English at Monash University. He has written extensively on early modern English literature and the history of the performing arts in Australia.
Content
Abbreviations; Illustrations; Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1. Individuality and sameness; 2. Historical survey; 3. Defining authorship; 4. External evidence; 5. Internal evidence; 6. Stylistic evidence; 7. Gender and Authorship; 8. Craft and science; 9. Bibliographical evidence; 10. Forgery and attribution; 11. Shakespeare and Co.; 12. Arguing attribution; Bibliography; Index.