Rather than any of her more mature writing, Miles Franklin’s debut romance, My Brilliant Career, has been cemented into the canon Australian literary nationalism. The novel received ambivalent immediate responses upon its publication in 1901 for unflattering representation author’s kin and society. Subsequent criticism soon accepted oeuvre as part dominant male discourse late nineteenth-century...

In this essay we analyse three recent historical novels from Australia that take as their focus figures who transcend normative gender boundaries in some way, either through possible criminal activity and/or sexuality or identity: Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (2013), about Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed Iceland; Sarah Schmidt’s See What I Have Done (2017), infamous Lizzie Borden; and...

The question of minimal sample size is one of the most important issues in stylometry and nontraditional authorship attribution. In the last decade or so, a few studies concerning different aspects of scalability in stylometry have been published (Zhao and Zobel, 2005; Hirst and Feiguina, 2007; Stamatatos, 2008; Koppel et al., 2009; Mikros, 2009; Luyckx and Daelemans, 2011), but the question ha...

Critical geographers" concerned with cartography insist maps are first and foremost social artefacts that must be "read" as authorial documents rather than perceived as data statements. Their argument is typically dismissed as trivial because the relation between intent and output has rarely been demonstrated in a critical way. This article seeks to demonstrate the degree to which authorial int...

We present a system that uses evolutionary optimization to suggest new story-world events that, if added to an existing interactive story, would most improve the average interactive experience, according to author-supplied criteria. In doing so, we aim to apply some of the ideas from drama-managed storytelling, such as authorial aesthetic control, in an unguided setting more akin to emergent st...

In Enlightenment Europe multilingualism was an omnipresent fact. Even the correspondences of eighteenth-century writers gave clear evidence – often strategically chosen forms multilingualism. Up until today, question arises as to why early modern used (various of) in their letters. This paper investigates, for first time, hypothesis that letter writing a strategy intellectual and authorial self...

This paper reports an experiment in authorship attribution that reveals considerable authorial structure in texts written by authors with very similar background and training, with genre and topic being strictly controlled for. We interpret our results as supporting the hypothesis that authors have ’textual fingerprints’, at least for texts produced by authors who are not consciously changing t...