Text attribution: theory and practice
Is it possible to determine the authorship of a literary text? Yes, and above all with the help of archival sources - historical documents. If it is necessary to find out to whom this or that article belongs, which can be under a pseudonym or not signed in principle, researchers look for the payroll in archives. Whichever name a person has given under the article, he or she has received money under his or her own name for it. So we can understand whether it was Pisarev or Chernyshevsky, Dostoevsky or Goncharov...