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Measuring the Style of Italian Literary Criticism: A Comparison between Professional and Non-professional Book Reviews

Data publikacji: 16.12.2025

Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 25 (2025), Tom 25, numer 3, s. 243-255

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.25.039.22752

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Simone Rebora
Università degli Studi di Verona
, Włochy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-3774 Orcid
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Measuring the Style of Italian Literary Criticism: A Comparison between Professional and Non-professional Book Reviews

Abstrakt

The paper presents the results of a series of computational analyses applied to professional and nonprofessional book reviews in the Italian language. A corpus of texts from the aNobii platform and from La Domenica del Sole 24 Ore is processed with a stylometric approach (Cosine Delta distance), confirming how 50 most frequent words are more effective in distinguishing the two sources than the usage of a specialized lexicon of literary criticism. Deeper linguistic investigations verify which words are the most important in determining the distinction and how their usage differ in the two content platforms. A closer analysis through word co-occurrence and keyword in context closes the paper, highlighting the more evaluative and subjective language used in non-professional book reviews.

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Informacje

Informacje: Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 25 (2025), Tom 25, numer 3, s. 243-255

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-3774

Simone Rebora
Università degli Studi di Verona
, Włochy
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-3774 Orcid
Kontakt z autorem
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

Università degli Studi di Verona
Włochy
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Publikacja: 16.12.2025

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY 4.0  ikona licencji

Finansowanie artykułu:

This research is part of the Excellence Project 2023–2027 “Inclusive Humanities: Perspectives for Development in the Research and Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literatures”, within the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona.

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Informacje o autorze:

Simone Rebora is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Verona. As a postdoc, he worked at the Universities of Mainz, Bielefeld, Göttingen, and Basel. His main research interests are theory and history of literary historiography, reader response studies, and computational literary studies. His essays have been published in journals such as “PLOS One”, “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”, and “Modern Language Notes”. In Italian, he published the monographs Claudio Magris (2015) and History/Historie e Digital Humanities (2018).

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