Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940
The present study proposes an experimental exploration of the Romanian novel written between 1920 and 1940 through the use of stylometry, a method of distant reading employed for the statistical analysis of style. Drawing from the most recent advances in the field of computational stylistics, we sel...
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| description | The present study proposes an experimental exploration of the Romanian novel written between 1920 and 1940 through the use of stylometry, a method of distant reading employed for the statistical analysis of style. Drawing from the most recent advances in the field of computational stylistics, we select a formal standpoint from which we seek to investigate the relation between the Romanian novelistic canon and minor, tertiary novels published in the same period. In our test cases, we will attempt to establish some of the more promising aspects of stylometric analysis, as well as single out the experiments that yield no relevant result. Because of the relative novelty of the method, the purpose of our investigations is to offer a kind of pilot experiment that can illustrate the benefits of using computational methods on Romanian literary corpora. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-824419694a6445b7ae0d174bbbbc4e252022-12-21T22:20:55ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory2457-88272020-12-01624863https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2020.10.03Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940Emanuel Modoc0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3716-4653Daiana Gârdan1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-0875Sextil Puscariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, Romanian AcademyBabes-Bolyai UniversityThe present study proposes an experimental exploration of the Romanian novel written between 1920 and 1940 through the use of stylometry, a method of distant reading employed for the statistical analysis of style. Drawing from the most recent advances in the field of computational stylistics, we select a formal standpoint from which we seek to investigate the relation between the Romanian novelistic canon and minor, tertiary novels published in the same period. In our test cases, we will attempt to establish some of the more promising aspects of stylometric analysis, as well as single out the experiments that yield no relevant result. Because of the relative novelty of the method, the purpose of our investigations is to offer a kind of pilot experiment that can illustrate the benefits of using computational methods on Romanian literary corpora.https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/165/style-at-the-scale-of-the-canon-a-stylometric-analysis-of-100-romanian-novels-published-between-1920-and-1940stylometrycomputational literary studiesdigital humanitiesromanian literatureromanian novelcanon |
| spellingShingle | Emanuel Modoc Daiana Gârdan Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory stylometry computational literary studies digital humanities romanian literature romanian novel canon |
| title | Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 |
| title_full | Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 |
| title_fullStr | Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 |
| title_short | Style at the Scale of the Canon. A Stylometric Analysis of 100 Romanian Novels Published between 1920 and 1940 |
| title_sort | style at the scale of the canon a stylometric analysis of 100 romanian novels published between 1920 and 1940 |
| topic | stylometry computational literary studies digital humanities romanian literature romanian novel canon |
| url | https://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/165/style-at-the-scale-of-the-canon-a-stylometric-analysis-of-100-romanian-novels-published-between-1920-and-1940 |
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