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ISBN: | 0511067011 9780511067013 0521783399 9780521783392 0521789486 9780521789486 1280160276 9781280160271 051106070X 9780511060700 0511069146 9780511069147
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Love, Harold, 1937-2007. Attributing authorship. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521783399 0521789486
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