
Introduction to the Attribution of Literature
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"I found it an education."Larry Niven, best-selling Nebula, Hugo and Locus award-winner
"I am delighted to see the publication of Volume I of her fascinating and controversial reattribution project. It is no secret that challenging traditional beliefs and assumptions, regardless of the field, is typically met with criticism. Yet, we know that discovery and enlightenment are always led by risk takers who can see what others cannot see. Thoroughly researched and well written, Faktorovich's Introduction to the Attribution of Literature explains her methodology in determining the true authorship of many post-Renaissance works. It is a valuable contribution to English literature and to the field of philology."
Lesly F. Massey, PhD
"Dr. Anna Faktorovich's re-attribution studies expose previous fraudulent authorship claims for much of the 'ghostwritten' literature in the Western canon. She has examined evidence in handwriting and biographical data to uncover the true identities of the authorship of many of the bylines in respective centuries. The results are astonishing and, I believe, could outmode and transform the current paradigms of both literary theory and criticism."
Dr. Louis Gallo, Professor Emeritus, Radford University
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Part I: The New Stylometric Attribution Method
Chapter 1. Anti-Assumptions as Pre-Requisites for Computational Stylometry
Chapter 2. The Steps of the Recommended Stylometric Attribution Method
Chapter 3. Selecting a Suitable Corpus
Chapter 4. Preparing Texts for Testing
Chapter 5. Reasons for the Use of Free Accessible Software
Chapter 6. Discussion of the Data in the 18th and 19th Century Corpuses
Chapter 7. A Method for the Quantitative Selection of the Most Likely Ghostwriter in a Linguistic-Group
Part II: Experiments to Explain Weaknesses of Previous Attribution Methods
Chapter 8. Thomas Mendenhall's Visual Curve Word-Length Comparison Model (1887)
Chapter 9. George Udny Yule's Sentence-Length Ranges and Statistics Model (1939)
Chapter 10. George Udny Yule's Vocabulary Model (1944)
Chapter 11. Zhao and Zobel's 634-Text Corpus (2007)
Part III: Experiments to Verify the New Method's Accessibility and Accuracy
Chapter 12. Statistical Comparison of Standard versus Newly Proposed Stylometric Methodologies
Index
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