Oulipo : a primer of potential literature

Oulipo : a primer of potential literature / translated and edited by Warren F. Motte, Jr.

The literary group known as Oulipo, was founded in Paris in 1960 to pursue writing in a way that contrasts strongly with the Anglo-American tradition. The examples included in this collection all display some form of literary constraint.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Motte, Warren F.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
Edition:1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Series:French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
Subjects:
Oulipo (Association)
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > France.
Literary form.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Liminal poem / Harry Mathews
  • Lipo : first manifesto / Fançois Le Lionnais
  • Second manifesto / François Le Lionnais
  • Brief history of the Oulipo / Jean Lescure
  • Rule and constraint / Marcel Bénabou
  • The Collège de Pataphysique and the Oulipo / Collective
  • Potential literature / Raymond Queneau
  • Queneau Oulipian / Jacques Bens
  • Raymond Queneau and the amalgam of mathematics and literature / François Le Lionnais
  • Mathematics in the method of Raymond Queneau / Jacques Roubaud
  • History of lipogram / Georges Perec
  • Recurrent literature / Jacques Bens [and others]
  • For a potential analysis of combinatory literature / Claude Berge
  • Mathew's algorithm / Harry Mathews
  • Computer and writer : the Centre Pompidou experiment / Paul Fournel
  • Prose and anticombinatorics / Italo Calvino
  • The relation X takes Y for Z / Raymond Queneau
  • A story as you like it / Raymond Queneau
  • The theater tree : a combinatory play / Paul Fournel, Jean-Pierre Énard
  • Oulipians and their works.

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