Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations

Who wrote the Illuminations? In 2014, their authorship was contested by Eddie Breuil in his essay Du Nouveau chez Rimbaud: the collection would not be the work of Arthur Rimbaud, but of another poète maudit, Germain Nouveau. If certain arguments of Breuil may be attractive, this new attribution does...

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Main Author: Simon Gabay
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Published: Humanistica 2025-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4306
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description Who wrote the Illuminations? In 2014, their authorship was contested by Eddie Breuil in his essay Du Nouveau chez Rimbaud: the collection would not be the work of Arthur Rimbaud, but of another poète maudit, Germain Nouveau. If certain arguments of Breuil may be attractive, this new attribution does not however seem to be confirmed by initial investigations carried out using the most recent computational methods used for authorship attribution. Thanks to support vector machines, we are not only able to say with a reasonable degree of certainty that the Illuminations were indeed written by Rimbaud, but also to explore his style at an infralexical level by unfolding the results proposed by the machine.
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Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
Humanités Numériques
literature
textual analysis
stylistics
stylometry
authorship attribution
title Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
title_full Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
title_fullStr Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
title_full_unstemmed Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
title_short Rien de Nouveau chez Rimbaud : sur l’attribution des Illuminations
title_sort rien de nouveau chez rimbaud sur l attribution des illuminations
topic literature
textual analysis
stylistics
stylometry
authorship attribution
url https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/4306
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