Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O’Brien

O'Sullivan, James; Bazarnik, Katarzyna; Eder, Maciej; Rybicki, Jan

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“…In stylometry, token words were as important as the other meaningful lexical items while analysing. The most frequent words were analysed to find the sameness between collections of texts (O'Sullivan, 2018). Stylometry was more concerned with words as the order of words and their occurrence conveyed a particular theme and effect (Rybicki, Hoover, & Eder, 2016).…”

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Stylometric Appraisal of Coelho’s Selected Translated Novels: A Digital Humanities Study

2023

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To quantify the style markers of any writer is a laborious and erroneous task in close reading, while distant reading with the Voyant Summary tool presents stylometric features precisely. The current study employs the Voyant summary tool to analyse data through the lens of Stefan Sinclair and Geoffery Rockwell's Hermeneutica Theory (2016). The Voyant Summary tool performs text mining of Coelho's style markers; total words, unique words, vocabulary density, the average length of sentences and the most frequent words. Coelho's vocabulary density ranges from 0.075 to 0.263 words. Colhelo's average length of sentences ranges from 13 to 26.2 words per sentence. The dialogic writing style is evident with the word 'said'. Moreover, themes of love and life are the most repeated ones. To enhance the readability of his works, he refrains from archaic vocabulary. The Zahir shows the lowest vocabulary density, while Adultery reveals the highest vocabulary density.

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Stylometric Appraisal of Coelho’s Selected Translated Novels: A Digital Humanities Study

2023

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“…When scholars speak of "text analysis" in the context of DH scholarship, it is generally taken that they are referring to the use of computerassisted, largely statistical methods designed to measure and classify some aspect of the materials with which they are concerned. An example of such research would be authorship attribution, wherein documents are statistically clustered by their stylistic proximity; for an illustrative example, see "Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O'Brien" (O'Sullivan et al 2018). While DH means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, text mining is a major part of what lies under the so-called "big tent" (Weingart and Eichmann-Kalwara 2017).…”

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“…11, page 19 of 31Irish DH's sharing initiatives. Computer-assisted approaches to literary criticism, for example, have largely been confined to individual scholars-either based in Ireland or studying Irish materials-working on isolated one-off studies and papers(Howell et al 2014;Reeve 2016;O'Sullivan et al 2018). The scope of these smaller research projects in no way diminishes their significance, but it is remarkable that of Ireland's"flagship" DH projects, only a small few have had an analytical emphasis.…”

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2020

Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique

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And Quiet Flows the Don: the Sholokhov-Kryukov authorship debate

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2019

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ is an epic novel, considered one of the most significant works of Russian and world literature. The debate on the authorship of ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ had been surrounding the novel since its first release in 1928 by Mikhail Sholokhov, who was repeatedly accused of plagiarism. The supporters of the plagiarism theory often indicate that the real author of the novel is the Cossack writer, Fyodor Kryukov, who died before ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ was published. In the present study we applied the information-based similarity analysis (Yang et al., 2003a, Linguistic analysis of human heartbeats using frequency and rank order statistics. Physical Review Letters, 90: 108103; Yang et al., 2003b, Information categorization approach to literary authorship disputes. Physica A, 329, 473) and Burrows's Delta (Burrows, 2002, ‘Delta’: a measure of stylistic difference and a guide to likely authorship. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 17(3):267–87) to a corpus of Russian literature of XIX and XX centuries. We next used these two methods to compare ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’ to Sholokhov’s and Kryukov’s writings. It was found that Fyodor Kryukov writings are distinct from ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’, whilst Sholokhov’s writings being close to the Don novel. The results also highlight how both information similarity analysis and Delta analysis can be used Russian language.

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Measuring Joycean Influences on Flann O’Brien

Abstract: This is a peer-reviewed article in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities.

Cited by 4 publications

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Stylometric Appraisal of Coelho’s Selected Translated Novels: A Digital Humanities Study

Stylometric Appraisal of Coelho’s Selected Translated Novels: A Digital Humanities Study

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And Quiet Flows the Don: the Sholokhov-Kryukov authorship debate

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