Computer stylometry of C. S. Lewis’s The Dark Tower and related texts
Author(s) -
Michael Oakes
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
digital scholarship in the humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2055-768X
pISSN - 2055-7671
DOI - 10.1093/llc/fqx043
Subject(s) - stylometry , tower , art , astronomy , astrophysics , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , physics , archaeology
10 generally attributed to C. S. Lewis. The manuscript was purportedly rescued from a bonfire shortly after Lewis’s death by his literary executor Walter Hooper, but the quality of the text is hardly vintage Lewis. Using computer stylometric programs made available by Eder et al.’s (2016: Stylometry with R: A package for computational text analysis. R Journal, 8(1): 107–21) ‘stylo’ package and a word
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