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The Detection of Personality in Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

Most literary productions are definitely accepted as the work of certain men, whose personality is associated with, and in a measure fixed by, their writings. Cases are not uncommon, however, in which the originality of a book is dubious, or its authorship uncertain; and students of literature are then called upon to decide whether a work, or a passage in a work, is the product of one man's brain, or of another's. In other words, they must determine the personality back of the written words.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1905

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page 305 note 1 The order of rimes in the décima is abbaaccddc; in the ballade it is ababbccdcd. The latter is exactly equal to two quintillas.

page 305 note 1 Gröber's Grundriss, II. Band, 2. Abteilung, p. 385.

page 305 note 2 Unter den obwaltenden Umständen, meine ich, ist es natürlicher und einfacher an eine Verwandtschaft der betreffenden Stellen zu denken, als an eine zufällige Uebereinstimmung, was als wunderbarer doch weniger Anspruch auf Wahrscheinlichkeit hat. N. Bock, in Zts. für neufr. Spr. und Lit., vol. x (1888), p. 86.

page 305 note 1 Cf. J. Jarry, Essai sur les Oeuvres de Jean Rotrou, Paris, 1868, p. 92. Other comparisons of Rotrou with Shakespeare are there made.

page 305 note 1 J. C. Van Dyke, The Meaning of Pictures, N. Y., 1903, p. 35, note.

page 305 note 1 Gröber's Grundriss, II. Band, 2. Abteilung, p. 465.

page 305 note 1 See Mod. Lang. Notes, March-April, 1904, p. 97.