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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Oulipo"”.
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Screening OULIPO : From Potential Literature to Potential Film
… point is the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), the Potential Workshop of Literature, whose members explore the Potential of Literature by writing with constraints, and the films of the early twentieth century avant-garde, which demonstrate the promise of experimentalism in cinema. From …
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The Oulipo and Modernism: Literature, Craft and Mathematical Form
The Oulipo is known primarily for the use of formal constraints in writing. The constraint is an arbitrary application of rigorously defined formal demands (often drawn from mathematics) in the process of literary or poetic composition. The group was founded in 1960, and their remit was limited to …
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Computer-aided constrained writing
… by the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo). I am approaching this topic both as a creative writer and a computer scientist. I shall investigate the how of constrained writing and the what of computer-aids through practical experimentation and observation. From these foundations I …
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Blueprint
… Jane Bennett’s writing on vibrant materiality, OuLiPo writing practices and constraints, the use of divinity aids in creative pursuits, and reader engagement. This combination adds to the larger conversation within the literary world of what it means when writing is taken off the page, explores …
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Digital Text and Physical Experience: French Digital Literatures Between Work and Text
… in the first chapter with the foundation of the Oulipo group in 1960 and taking as a starting point the group's conceptions of the computer in relation to literature. It proceeds in the second chapter to explore the materialities and physical factors that have informed the evolution of ideas …
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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation
… in the French experimental writing group Oulipo. In this dissertation, I seek to clarify the place of translation in Queneau’s career, and define its role in his creative process. I illustrate the active role he played in the transmission of culture across national, linguistic, and …
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Invisible Mathematics in Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili
… analyzed from his interest and involvement in Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle). The study begins by unfolding what aspects of combinatorial mathematics are present in Le città invisibili; how these concepts as well as other images are used in the construction and design of the cities …
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Deciphering the Silence: A Literary Journey to Alice E. Kober
On Thursday, 28 September 2017, I embarked upon my Journey to Alice Kober: 48 hours in trains taking me from New York City, where she had lived all her life, to Austin, Texas, where everything that she left behind is stored today. 48 hours of shades of green and mustardy yellow, 48 hours of train …