The paper proposes a series of stylometric analyses aimed at attributing the erotic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher (1906) to one of its possible authors: Felix Salten, Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernst Klein, and Willi Handl. After reviewing the discussion among literary scholars, two analyses have been performed: one that combines 480 different methods to compare the seven candidate authors; one that verifies the attribution using the “impostors” method. Results show how the most probable author is Felix Salten, more commonly known for his children’s book Bambi.
Who Wrote the Erotic Novel Josefine Mutzenbacher? Speculations, Theories, and Stylometric Analyses
Simone Rebora
;Massimo Salgaro
2021-01-01
Abstract
The paper proposes a series of stylometric analyses aimed at attributing the erotic novel Josefine Mutzenbacher (1906) to one of its possible authors: Felix Salten, Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernst Klein, and Willi Handl. After reviewing the discussion among literary scholars, two analyses have been performed: one that combines 480 different methods to compare the seven candidate authors; one that verifies the attribution using the “impostors” method. Results show how the most probable author is Felix Salten, more commonly known for his children’s book Bambi.
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