...Daisy Sainsbury This article explores the constrained writing practices of Austrian-American writer Walter Abish in relation to those of the French literary group the Oulipo, in particular Georges Perec. Specifically, it considers the formal, stylistic, and thematic similarities between Perec's La...

..., 1975 . 2 vols. Benabou, Marcel, and Jacques Roubaud. “OULIPO? Qu'est ceci?” Ecole Centrale de Lille. < http://www2.ec-lille.fr/~book/oulipo/info/presentation.shtml >. Bonaparte, Marie. The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation . Trans. John Rodker. London...

...Dennis Duncan A recurring problem in much critical writing about the Oulipo is a tendency to homogenize the output of the group's writers in order to present a universal poetics of constrained writing. Oulipians rightly bristle at these attempts to oversimplify the group's history, and a useful...

... DE L’OULIPO. By Hervé Le Tellier. Bordeaux, France: Le Castor Astral, 2006. 334 p. The OULIPO is a literary group that investigates the literary potential of formal struc- tures. Does an Oulipian aesthetics exist? According to Hervé Le Tellier, writer, professor of linguistics, and member...

... DE L’OULIPO. By Hervé Le Tellier. Bordeaux, France: Le Castor Astral, 2006. 334 p. The OULIPO is a literary group that investigates the literary potential of formal struc- tures. Does an Oulipian aesthetics exist? According to Hervé Le Tellier, writer, professor of linguistics, and member...

... DE L’OULIPO. By Hervé Le Tellier. Bordeaux, France: Le Castor Astral, 2006. 334 p. The OULIPO is a literary group that investigates the literary potential of formal struc- tures. Does an Oulipian aesthetics exist? According to Hervé Le Tellier, writer, professor of linguistics, and member...

.... The OULIPO is a literary group that investigates the literary potential of formal struc- tures. Does an Oulipian aesthetics exist? According to Hervé Le Tellier, writer, professor of linguistics, and member of the OULIPO since 1992, to fi nd the answer one must look to the reader. If a literary work...

... and the institution is the negation of any form: a bracket- ing that opens up, paradoxically, the possibility of a certain freedom, a possibility whose exemplification in literature includes not only the self-aware jokers of the Oulipo  school but also anyone who’s ever written a sonnet, a one-act play, a novel...

... Jolas, Georges Perec, Raymond Roussel, and the OULIPO Group in the French. For less canonical texts or works from cultures and traditions that have been historically marginalized in the West, such as those of the Southern Hemisphere, we might productively turn the tables and invite our students...

..., On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes, Le Journal intime de Sally Mara. 9 Kyriakidis plays with the alliterative words OULIPO and v (“to commiserate HYBRID MODERNISMS / 123 v v v (1967)” (“Borges, along with his close accomplice10...

... approach, especially in the works that were most directly related to his activities with OuLiPo, the workshop on logic and literature led by Raymond Queneau. His characters, especially after his earliest works, rarely have psycho- logical depth, and Calvino himself cultivated with great success...

... (as in the Kurzweil exam- ple), or many minds contribute to the composition of the poem (as in the Darwinian example). Both the author’s and the reader’s control is loosened by being multiplied among several participants. This technique is not new, of course; surrealist poets and the poets of OULIPO (Ouvroir...