{"product_id":"versification-and-authorship-attribution-by-petr-plechac-9788024648712","title":"Versification and Authorship Attribution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA clever investigation into two unsolved mysteries of poetic authorship.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem’s author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plecháč asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests his findings on two unsolved literary mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first, Plecháč distinguishes the parts of the Elizabethan verse play \u003ci\u003eThe Two Noble Kinsmen\u003c\/i\u003e written by William Shakespeare from those written by his coauthor, John Fletcher. In the second, he seeks to solve a case of suspected forgery: how authentic was a group of poems first published as the work of the nineteenth-century Russian author Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of poetic investigation should appeal to literary sleuths the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433260040428,"sku":"9788024648712","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9788024648712.jpg?v=1774765319","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/versification-and-authorship-attribution-by-petr-plechac-9788024648712","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}