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REFINED DIGITAL TEXTUAL CRITICISM: MORE ON THE QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP OF THE NOVEL QUIET FLOWS THE DON
 
PIIS013160950018902-6-1
DOI10.31860/0131-6095-2022-1-247-254
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Kirill Maslinsky 
Occupation: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation,
Journal nameRusskaia literatura
Edition1
Pages247-254
Abstract

In 2019, N. P. Velikanova and B. V. Orekhov published a stylometric study that tested the hypotheses about the authorship of the novel Quiet Flows the Don using Burrows’s Delta. The aim of this article is to suggest a minor but significant correction to their conclusions, based on the replication study made possible by the recent publication of the research data by Orekhov. The extended series of Delta experiments using these data supports the conclusion that The Don Stories and the first three volumes of Quiet Flows the Don were written by the same author. The alternative hypotheses about the authorship of the novel (Kryukov, Sevskij, Serafimovich) are not confirmed by the stylometric data. Yet, despite Velikanova and Orekhov’s claim, the Delta method and the corpus used in the study do not provide sufficient evidence to reliably attribute the fourth volume of Quiet Flows the Don to the same author.

KeywordsМ. А. Sholokhov, Quiet Flows the Don, stylometry, Burrows’s Delta, reproducible research.
Received25.02.2022
Publication date01.03.2022
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