4.0640 Style and Authorship (2/37)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 29 Oct 90 09:50:20 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0640. Monday, 29 Oct 1990.
(1) Date: 27 Oct 90 11:4:00 EDT (23 lines)
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Style and authorship
(2) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 13:55 EDT (14 lines)
From: "Tom Benson" <T3B@PSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0636 Rs: Stylistic Analysis/Authorship Attribution
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Date: 27 Oct 90 11:4:00 EDT
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Style and authorship
The use of statistics and stylistics in relation to authorship
has frequently been applied to the Bible. The following studies
are worth checking out (there are, of course, many many more):
Francis I. ANDERSEN, _Style and Authorship_. Tyndale Paper 21/2.
Melbourne: Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Studies in
Australia, 1976. pp.44.
Anthony KENNY, _A Stylometric Study of the New Testament_.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. pp. 127.
S. L. PORTNOY and D. L. PETERSEN, "Biblical Texts and Statistical
Analysis: Zechariah and Beyond", _Journal of Biblical
Literature_ 103 (1984) 11-21.
David Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier University
REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 13:55 EDT
From: "Tom Benson" <T3B@PSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0636 Rs: Stylistic Analysis/Authorship Attribution
There's a chapter on computer analysis/authorship attribution of
Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech by
Steve Olsen in T. Benson, ed., AMERICAN RHETORIC: CONTEXT AND
CRITICISM (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1989). Did
Patrick Henry deliver a "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech"?
Almost certainly. Did he write/speak the text that has come down
to us? Probably not, says Olsen.
Tom Benson
Penn State