Young Vladimír Vašek? - a numeral analysis contribution to the Bezruč−Hrzánský identity issue

• Authors: Andrei Zenkov , Michal Místecký
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study investigates the possible identity of Vladimír Vašek (= Petr Bezruč), author of Silesian Songs and The Blue Underwing, and Pavel Hrzánský, who authored Poems: Opus no. 5, a book of verse bearing some similarities to the future development of Vašek’s poetic self. The research is carried out via a novel authorship attribution method based on the investigation of numbers and numerals. This new investigation is complemented by the standardly employed MFC and MFW analyses. All the inquiries corroborate that Vašek’s authorship of Hrzánský’s poems is implausible. If the Hrzánský−Bezruč link is to be maintained in liter

Keywords

EN

authorship attribution; Bezruč; Hrzánský; MFC/MFW analysis; numerals; poetry; stylometry

CS

analýza MFC/MFW; Bezruč; číslovky; Hrzánský; poezie; stylometrie; určování autorství

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 105
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 151-161
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Andrei Zenkov

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Michal Místecký

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic