The Analysis of Literary Style--A Review

@article{citeulike:461365, abstract = {This paper considers the problem of quantifying literary style and looks at several variables which may be used as stylistic \"fingerprints\" of a writer. Statistics plays an important role in the sampling of texts, the building and fitting of models to linguistic data and in the testing of hypotheses, particularly in problems concerned with authorship attribution. The increasing availability of computer concordances of literary texts offers great possibilities to the analyst.}, author = {Holmes, D. I. }, citeulike-article-id = {461365}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2981893}, keywords = {computational\_stylistics}, posted-at = {2006-01-11 01:32:53}, priority = {2}, title = {The Analysis of Literary Style--A Review}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2981893} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:461365 L3 - citeulike-article-id:461365 N2 - This paper considers the problem of quantifying literary style and looks at several variables which may be used as stylistic "fingerprints" of a writer. Statistics plays an important role in the sampling of texts, the building and fitting of models to linguistic data and in the testing of hypotheses, particularly in problems concerned with authorship attribution. The increasing availability of computer concordances of literary texts offers great possibilities to the analyst. TI - The Analysis of Literary Style--A Review KW - computational_stylistics AU - Holmes, DI UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2981893 ER -