Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. This book is the first comprehensive literary survey of the field to appear in forty years. 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 and erudition, the study makes this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars.
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"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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Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years. 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 Authorship and Attribution will make this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars alike.
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The subject of attribution studies is the uniqueness of each human being and how this is enacted in writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
declarative author, authorship attribution studies, computational stylistics, funeral elegy, disputed authorship, collaborative authorship, stylistic evidence, common authorship, executive author, literary forgery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Revenger's Tragedy, New Testament, Old Testament, Attributing Authorship, John Burrows, William Hall of Hackney, Andrew Morton, Aphra Behn, Earl of Oxford, English Renaissance, Richard Bentley, Sir Thomas More, White House, Cyrus Hoy, Lee Pattinson, Primary Colors, Rena Cross, Arthur Sherbo, Barbara Johnstone, Christopher Marlowe, Don Giovanni, Earl of Southampton, Elkanah Settle, Francis Bacon, Hugh of St Victor New!
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The subject of attribution studies is the uniqueness of each human being and how this is enacted in writing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
declarative author, authorship attribution studies, computational stylistics, funeral elegy, disputed authorship, collaborative authorship, stylistic evidence, common authorship, executive author, literary forgery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Revenger's Tragedy, New Testament, Old Testament, Attributing Authorship, John Burrows, William Hall of Hackney, Andrew Morton, Aphra Behn, Earl of Oxford, English Renaissance, Richard Bentley, Sir Thomas More, White House, Cyrus Hoy, Lee Pattinson, Primary Colors, Rena Cross, Arthur Sherbo, Barbara Johnstone, Christopher Marlowe, Don Giovanni, Earl of Southampton, Elkanah Settle, Francis Bacon, Hugh of St Victor New!
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