Article

Name: “Sing with the Most Different Meters...”: Poetry of “Iskra” in the Mirror of Stylometry

Authors: Anastasia G. Vasilenko, Alexey E. Kozlov

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Secondary or Alternative: On the Russian Magazine Fiction of 19th Century

Abstract:

This article is devoted to the study of poetic parodies and rehashings by stylometry methods. As a tool, the Delta stylemetry method was chosen, which uses the distribution of the most frequent words to match texts in the corpus. At the first stage of the study (A. G. Vasilenko), it was important to find the answer to questions related to tracking the author's signal and clustering texts of rehashings: does the presence of rehashing affect the author's signal? Will the text of the rehash be clustered with the original works of the writer? At the second stage (A. E. Kozlov), an experiment was conducted to establish the stylometric correlation of the precedent text “Farewell, unwashed Russia”, which is also inherent in the possibilities of stylometry as a research tool. This study, the results of which cannot be called definitive, nevertheless opens the prospect of interaction between digital stylometry and auto-science.

Keywords: Russian literature of the 19th century, Kurochkin, Minaev, Iskra, digital humanities, theory of parody, classics and fiction, stylometry

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