Parody and Pastiche of Satirical Romanian Press

Pastiche Detection Based on Stopword Rankings. Exposing Impersonators of a Romanian Writer

We applied hierarchical clustering using Rank distance, previously used in computational stylometry, on literary texts written by Mateiu Caragiale and a number of different authors who attempted to impersonate Caragiale after his death, or simply to mimic his style. Their pastiches were consistently clustered opposite to the original work, thereby confirming the performance of the method and pr...

satirical literature in the egyptian press (case study: ahmed rajab)

newspaper is not merely a tool for showing sufferings, but  considered as a tool for expressing thought that receives its effect from power of words. satirical literature has taken up a great area of the newspaper to express different issues. expressing sufferings in a humorous way makes the audience or reader laugh and is useful as a sharp tool for warning about defects. egyptian journalist , ...

Models for Computer Generated Parody

This paper outlines two approaches to the construction of computer systems that generate prose in the style of a given author. The first involves using intuitive notions of stylistic trademarks to construct a grammar that characterizes a particular author—in this case, Ernest Hemingway. The second uses statistical methods for inferring a grammar from samples of an author’s work—in this instance...

Satirical Perspectives: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Beyond the "Holy See": Parody and Narrative Assemblage in "Cyclops"