Sonnets written by women in the Spanish Golden Age: a stylometric approach
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https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.16.2025.175-198Keywords:
stylometry, women writers, poetry, spanish Golden Age, topic modellingAbstract
This study presents a first quantitative approach to the poetic writing of female authorship in the Golden Age through the application of computational and stylometric methodologies, following the trail of international relevant works in the field of Computational Stylistics. The results obtained suggest that it is possible to differentiate between female and male writing in this genre and period. Additionally, a metapoetic motif in women’s poetry related to female writing was detected.
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