Towards a Philological Metric through a Topological Data Analysis Approach
Eduardo Paluzo-Hidalgo, Rocı́o González-Dı́az, Miguel Á. Gutiérrez-Naranjo · idUS (Universidad de Sevilla) · 2019
The canon of the baroque Spanish literature has been thoroughly studied with philological techniques. \t\t\t\t The major representatives of the poetry of this epoch are Francisco de Quevedo and Luis de Góngora \t\t\t\t y Argote. They are commonly classified by the literary experts in two different streams: Quevedo \t\t\t\t belongs to the Conceptismo and Góngora to the Culteranismo. Besides, traditionally, even if Quevedo \t\t\t\t is considered the most representative of the Conceptismo, Lope de Vega is also considered to be, at \t\t\t\t least, closely related to this literary trend. In this paper, we use Topological Data Analysis techniques \t\t\t\t to provide a first approach to a metric distance between the literary style of these poets. As a \t\t\t\t consequence, we reach results that are under the literary experts’ criteria, locating the literary style of \t\t\t\t Lope de Vega, closer to the one of Quevedo than to the one of Góngora.