The Grimm Brothers: A stylometric network analysis.

Stylometric methods can be used to reveal similarities between texts and, combined with network analysis, to depict the stylistic relations between those texts. The research conducted here focuses on a corpus of letters written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Using stylometric analysis, we model the wri...

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Published in:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 172 - 187
Main Authors: Rotari, Gabriela, Jander, Melina, Rybicki, Jan
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2021
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Summary:Stylometric methods can be used to reveal similarities between texts and, combined with network analysis, to depict the stylistic relations between those texts. The research conducted here focuses on a corpus of letters written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Using stylometric analysis, we model the writing styles of the brothers depending on the addressees and chronology. The brothers have individual styles: Wilhelm has a more friendly and personal tone independent on addresses, while Jacob has a more impersonal style, unless he was writing to Wilhelm. Their styles merge at the interactions of their career or personal development.