What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.

Curtin researcher Tom Fitzgerald amassed a wealth of evidence that John Curtin wrote under the pen name "Vigilant" in the early years of his editorship of the Westralian Worker. If true, the personal and literary columns penned by "Vigilant" provide new insights into the inner te...

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Main Authors: Wallace, Lesley, Antonia, A., Craig, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Monash University ePress 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32748
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author Wallace, Lesley
Antonia, A.
Craig, H.
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description Curtin researcher Tom Fitzgerald amassed a wealth of evidence that John Curtin wrote under the pen name "Vigilant" in the early years of his editorship of the Westralian Worker. If true, the personal and literary columns penned by "Vigilant" provide new insights into the inner temperament of Australia's war time Prime Minister. Fitzgerald's evidence for Curtin as "Vigilant" is presented in this paper and the attribution is further explored by applying stylistic tests developed at the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle (NSW).
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-327482017-01-30T13:32:54Z What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship. Wallace, Lesley Antonia, A. Craig, H. Westralian Worker Vigilant Tom Fitzgerald linguistic analysis John Curtin Curtin researcher Tom Fitzgerald amassed a wealth of evidence that John Curtin wrote under the pen name "Vigilant" in the early years of his editorship of the Westralian Worker. If true, the personal and literary columns penned by "Vigilant" provide new insights into the inner temperament of Australia's war time Prime Minister. Fitzgerald's evidence for Curtin as "Vigilant" is presented in this paper and the attribution is further explored by applying stylistic tests developed at the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle (NSW). 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32748 Monash University ePress fulltext
spellingShingle Westralian Worker
Vigilant
Tom Fitzgerald
linguistic analysis
John Curtin
Wallace, Lesley
Antonia, A.
Craig, H.
What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title_full What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title_fullStr What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title_full_unstemmed What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title_short What's in a name - was John Curtin "Vigilant"? Analysing style to determine authorship.
title_sort what's in a name - was john curtin "vigilant"? analysing style to determine authorship.
topic Westralian Worker
Vigilant
Tom Fitzgerald
linguistic analysis
John Curtin
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32748