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Informationen zum Autor MacDonald P. Jackson is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland and a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Klappentext Published anonymously in 1823, "The Night Before Christmas" has traditionally been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), who included it in his Poems (1844). But descendants of Henry Livingston (1748-1828) claim that he read it to his children as his own creation long before Moore is alleged to have composed it. This book evaluates the opposing arguments and for the first time uses the author-attribution techniques of modern computational stylistics to settle the long-standing dispute. Both writers left substantial bodies of verse, which have been computer analyzed for distinguishing characteristics. Employing a range of tests and introducing a new one--statistical analysis of phonemes--this study identifies the true author and makes a significant contribution to the growing field of attribution studies.Published anonymously in 1823, "The Night Before Christmas" has traditionally been attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), who included it in his Poems (1844). But descendants of Henry Livingston (1748-1828) claim that he read it to his children as his own creation long before Moore is alleged to have composed it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1.¿Introduction to the Problem2.¿Moore and Livingston: External and Internal Evidence3.¿Reindeer Names, Exclamations and Other Clues4.¿The Question of Sources5.¿The Evidence of Meter6.¿Statistical Interlude7.¿Attributive Adjectives8.¿Rhyme Links with Moore and Livingston9.¿Shared Three-Word Sequences and Parallels10.¿Phoneme Pairs11.¿Categories of Phoneme Pairs12.¿Individual Phoneme Pairs More Favored by Moore or Livingston13.¿Definite and Indefinite Articles14.¿Very High-Frequency Words15.¿Favorite Expressions and Quirks of Style16.¿Common Words That Discriminate17.¿Words of Medium-High Frequency18.¿Checking the Tests: Moore's Manuscript Poems19.¿The Moore Creation Myth20.¿The Livingston Version21.¿Further Considerations: Claims and Connections22.¿"Old Santeclaus" and Moore23.¿Summary and ConclusionsAppendix I: Henry Livingston: Selected Poems and ProseAppendix II: Lists of the Poems of Livingston and MooreAppendix III: Printer's Copy for "Visit" in Moore's Poems (1844)NotesBibliographyIndex...
