Queerness and authorship attribution
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José Calvo Tello
Sep 21, 2023, 9:08:17 AM9/21/23
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Dear colleagues,
I am currently working on a paper on authorship verification with multiple authors, in which things seem odd: some chapters are clearly assigned to some of the candidates, some chapters are assigned to some of the impostors who were already dead when the text was written, and for some chapters the algorithm assigns a very low probability to all authors. This last case is the strangest and leads me to believe that another person (or persons) was perhaps involved in the writing.
One of the characteristics of the novel is that it describes several homosexual relations, and that in the early 20th century. One of the things I'd like to argue in the article is that the queer representation of the novel has affected the text in many ways: it was written under a pseudonym, it was only recently published, it was hidden for a very long time, several people wanted to destroy it, and so on. And none of this would have happened if the text had described heterosexual relations.
I am currently working on a paper on authorship verification with multiple authors, in which things seem odd: some chapters are clearly assigned to some of the candidates, some chapters are assigned to some of the impostors who were already dead when the text was written, and for some chapters the algorithm assigns a very low probability to all authors. This last case is the strangest and leads me to believe that another person (or persons) was perhaps involved in the writing.
One of the characteristics of the novel is that it describes several homosexual relations, and that in the early 20th century. One of the things I'd like to argue in the article is that the queer representation of the novel has affected the text in many ways: it was written under a pseudonym, it was only recently published, it was hidden for a very long time, several people wanted to destroy it, and so on. And none of this would have happened if the text had described heterosexual relations.
My
question to you: have you worked in similar cases, in which the queerness
of the text or the author was part of the attribution problem? And more generally, if you have any thoughts on the issues described above, please let me hear your comments.
Regards from Göttingen!
José
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Dr. José Calvo Tello
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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