Stylometric analysis in Python applied to epistolaries of the nobel prize in literature, Gabriela Mistral

Abstract

The present work is a stylometric study that uses a sample of letters from the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral addressed to Pedro Prado, Manuel Magallanes Moure, and Doris Dana as a corpus. This study replicates the exercise proposed by François Dominic Laramée, “Introduction to Stylometry with Python,” in which 3 forms of stylometric studies are used. This study validates the 3 methodologies. Additionally, the study complements the analysis by incorporating a word cloud to recognize the styles and tendencies of the poet through stylometry, where the nature of the relationship that existed between Mistral with Pedro Prado, Manuel Magallanes, and Doris Dana can be established and determined. This research contributes to different areas of knowledge that are interested in continuing to reveal the figure and imagination of Gabriela Mistral through some automatic analysis using programming tools and data science.