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Anna Faktorovich

Autor(a) de The Romances of George Sand

21+ Works 139 Membros 55 Críticas
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About the Author

Anna Faktorovich is the founder and director of the Anaphora Literary Press and the editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She has been a professor of English for Middle Georgia College and for Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
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Obras por Anna Faktorovich

The Romances of George Sand (2014) 24 exemplares
The Burden of Persuasion (2017) 20 exemplares
The Battle for Democracy (2016) 19 exemplares
Introduction to Literature (2018) 8 exemplares
Fatal Design (2018) 7 exemplares

Associated Works

A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (2023) — Tradutor, algumas edições14 exemplares
The Aphrodisia (2021) — Editor — 6 exemplares
Hamlet: The First Quarto (2021) — Editor — 5 exemplares
Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia and Three Letters (2021) — Editor — 5 exemplares
Job Triumphant in His Trial and The Woodman’s Bear (2023) — Tradutor — 4 exemplares
Look Around You (2021) — Editor — 4 exemplares
The Thirsty Arabia (2021) — Editor — 3 exemplares
The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London (2021) — Editor — 3 exemplares
The Fairy Pastoral and Songs (2021) — Editor — 3 exemplares
Captain Underwit (2021) — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Cuck-Queans’ and Cuckolds’ Errands (2021) — Editor — 2 exemplares
Nobody and Somebody (2021) — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Variety (2023) — Tradutor — 2 exemplares
A Comparative Study of Byrd Songs (2023) — Tradutor — 2 exemplares
Fedele and Fortunio, the Two Italian Gentlemen (2021) — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Tragicomedy of the Virtuous Octavia (2023) — Tradutor — 1 exemplar
Smith: Or, The Tears of the Muses (2023) — Tradutor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1981-07-24
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Quanah, Texas, USA
Educação
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA|Economics)
University of South Carolina (MA|Comparative Literature)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (PhD|English Literature)
Ocupações
publisher
writer

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Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. She taught college English for over four years at the University of Texas RGV, Middle Georgia College, and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She has a PhD in English Literature. She published two scholarly books: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson" (McFarland, 2013) and "The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (McFarland, 2014). She is the author of the 20-volume British Renaissance Re-Attribution and Modernization series. She received a Kentucky Historical Society and Brown University fellowships. Her research has been cited in 42 scholarly articles and books, according to Google Scholar, as of 2023.

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Who Really Wrote the Works of the British Renaissance? em Talk about LibraryThing (Fevereiro 14)

Críticas

Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
A little gruesome for me, but so compelling was the writing I read it all the way through anyway.
 
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Nightwing | 2 outras críticas | Oct 13, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
When comparing a single work to the clear-cut oeuvre of a single author, a computational take on stylistic analysis is possible. Factors such as punctuation and sentence length do come into play. See, for example, the cases of identifying the Unabomber from his manifesto, verifying whether a sonnet is by Shakespeare, identifying he author of Primary Colors, and other such projects detailed in Don Foster’s book Author Unknown. However, the premise of this book--that massive numbers of British works were in fact produced by a gang of six ghostwriters--is improbable. Just because a process involves a computer does not automatically mean that its results are valid.
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Ling.Lass | 4 outras críticas | Sep 17, 2022 |
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The Re-Attribution of the British Renaissance Corpus provides a fascinating, modern approach to the attribution of texts through algorithmic analysis of patterns of speech, vocabulary, and punctuation, and uses, rather boldly, as proof of concept, the greater body of English Renaissance era work, including the works traditionally attributed to Shakespeare. The results of these analyses are supplemented by historical evidence, together painting a picture that is rather different than what is usually assumed.

This book is thorough and informative, if at times, a little repetitive and on the dense side. It would have been nice to have had more of the data integrated with the text as charts, but this is a minor gripe, since plenty of times it is, and, in what is a true treat, all of the data is shared via a link to the author’s GitHub repository.

Thank you, Dr. Faktorovich, for such an interesting read!

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Suphunibal | 4 outras críticas | Mar 3, 2022 |
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received via Early Reviewer. This is a hefty volume!! A very scholarly, detailed, and narrowly focused study. The author uses computational linguistics to identify signatures of authors (and potentially some editors) of British Renaissance literature - examining 284 different texts across numerous bylines of named, initialed and anonymous authors. Although i find the subject matter very interesting, this is a very scholarly document (more than 800 footnotes) with all of the underlying research and detailed data available on a web site (I did not try to access). There are two major take-aways (and quite a few additional) - 1) that the entire corpus of British Renaissance literature can be traced back to a set of six individual ghostwriters, and 2) the author's use of 27 different tests of computational linguistics as a method of author attribution is far more reliable than previous attributional studies that have focused on rare, unusual, or a limited set of words and phrases. I found some of the charting in the volume hard to follow, but the underlying logic fascinating. There is quite a bit of repetition chapter to chapter, however, overall an absolutely interesting read (for those who have an interest in British Renaissance literature and enjoy the "who wrote Shakespeare?" discussions)… (mais)
 
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jsoos | 4 outras críticas | Feb 14, 2022 |

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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
3.2
Críticas
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ISBN
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