Oulipian Messages by Sydney Levy

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Constraints, concealment and buried texts: reading Walter Abish with Georges Perec and the Oulipo by Sainsbury, D

“…Among the first to identify the link between Abish and the Oulipo were Oulipians themselves, such as Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie, who described Abish’s novel Alphabetical Africa as “one of the most remarkable Oulipian works by an author not belonging to the group” (45). …”

A SPATIAL TRANSLATION ON THE TEXT OF RAYMOND QUENEAU’S “EXERCISES IN STYLE” by Sırma Bilir, Pelin Yıldız

“…Beyond adaptation of the Oulipian techniques used in the text, new creative methods also come to the fore. …”
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La réception de l’Oulipo en Catalogne et en Espagne by Hermes Salceda

“…We will therefore distinguish several fields: translations, the productions of authors who work under oulipian constraints, university reception, pedagogical environment and plastic arts.…”
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Twenty Questions for Noël Arnaud by Warren F. Motte Jr.

“…He offers art assessment of twenty-five years of Oulipian activity, in the course of which he touches upon notions which are crucial to the Oulipo's praxis: the fundamental analogy of mathematics and literature, the role of formal constraint in the literary text, and the mutual complementarity of scholarship in literary history and the practice of innovative literary experimentalism.…”
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Twists and Turns in Crime Fiction—Peter Lovesey’s “Youdunnit” and Max Dorra’s “Thou shalt kill” by François Gallix

“…This article in the form of an enquiry attempts to follow the track opened by the French Oulipian François Le Lionnais and taken up again by Umberto Eco, according to which the only hypothesis left by the novel of detection is when the culprit happens to be the reader. …”
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Une traduction oulipienne des oulipiens ? by Ramon Lladó

“…When considering the translation of Oulipian literature, it is not sufficient to raise the question of translation procedures or methods. …”
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La contrainte selon l’Oulipo : anomalie de définition ou stratégie de légitimation by Yuhua Xia

“…The resulting ambiguities create challenges for researchers studying Oulipian constraints. This paper reviews Oulipo’s attempts to theorize constraint and legitimize its literature, examining these efforts through the lens of the group’s struggle for literary legitimacy. …”
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On Generative Poetry: Structural, Stylistic and Lexical Features by Svetlana Anatolevna Kuchina

“…This paper deals with key aspects of the Oulipo and Dada methods and their implementation in electronic generative poetry. Oulipian constraints such as acrostics, tautograms, simple numerical limitations and combinatory algorithms are easily integrated into digital environments. …”
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'falling awake': Peter Manson's Catachresis by Callie Gardner

“…The reading takes as a starting point the productive wrongnesses that come out of the neo-Oulipian texts of Factitious Airs (2016), then moves to consider catachresis as one possible reference for the idea of ‘frank rupture’ (a deliberate breaking with the conventional meanings of words) in the longer texts of Poems of Frank Rupture (2014). …”
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Weird science: affect and epistemology in contemporary literary and artistic projects by Morris, K

“…This thesis insists on the continued importance of the Oulipo in contemporary culture and seeks to provide a larger, interdisciplinary context for oulipian experimentation by analysing similar works in the visual arts. …”