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This paper will discuss the possibility of attributing authorship to translations by carrying out a comparative stylometric analysis of an author's poems and their translations of other writers' works. The paper puts forward two hypotheses. Firstly, its aim is to test whether an author's poems and translations share stylistic patterns. Secondly, it will test whether these shared patterns can be used to attribute authorship of translations. The complete works of Antonio Colinas and Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, together with their respective translations of Giacomo Leopardi's Cantos, will be used. Based on these texts, we will build computational representations that correspond to the stylistic profiles of each author, using various style cues related to metrics, grammar, and lexicon. These representations will serve as input for the calculation of similarity. Its result will allow us to determine to what extent characteristics of an author's own verses remain in the translated poems and whether there is more closeness between the two translations or between each author's poetry and their translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital archiving has opened up new pathways for research in the humanities, especially involving work from the pre-digital era, such as the poetry of Emily Dickinson. This paper utilizes the robust Emily Dickinson Lexicon hosted by Brigham Young University, harnessing digital tools to investigate Dickinson's bold, surprising use of language. This paper also discusses Michel Foucault's "What Is An Author?" in addressing Dickinson's unique journey to authorship. An in-depth look into Dickinson's enigmatic persona and surprising use of language reveals insights pertaining not only to the genre, medium, culture, and reader--but also about the author herself. The Emily Dickinson Lexicon creates countless learning opportunities for scholars and interested minds alike to identify and study Dickinson's radical vocabulary, and the subsequent discussions her words inspired. Such discussions are what preserve Dickinson's author status, though few of her poems were published in her lifetime. The Lexicon allows for new ways to frame and investigate important questions regarding Dickinson and female authorship in nineteenth-century America. What, after all, is an author? What constitutes publication? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]