The paternity of Madalena: a case of authorship attribution

Authors

  • Deise Joelen Tarouco de Freitas Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2016v13n1p47

Abstract

This article belongs to the area of study of authorship attribution. We study the case of a short story published in a newspaper called A Marmota, in 1859, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The signature of the text was M. de A., the same signature used by two brazilian writers that collaborated with A Marmota, at the same time. One of them was Machado de Assis, the most iconic and canonic Brazilian writer, and the other was an almost unknown writer called Manuel D. Moreira de Azevedo.  In this work, we use the program Hyperbase that can turn the corpus in a big database. We analyze here the structural data by differents algorithms and arrive to an authentication.

Author Biography

Deise Joelen Tarouco de Freitas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Possui graduação em Jornalismo(1992) e Letras- Português (2016), ambas cursadas na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1992), mestrado em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (1998) e doutorado em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2007). Atuação principal nos seguintes temas: Machado de Assis, teoria literária, estatística textual, estilo e conto.

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Published

2017-07-31

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017)

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