Author: Anna Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800348444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but more interested in form than content and ultimately disengaged from the world. This book examines a broad corpus of work by Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud and Anne F. Garréta to show that, despite the group's early devotion to the radical impersonality of mathematics, later generations of oulipians have brought the group's fascination with systems, games and constraints to bear on autobiography. Far from being 'lifeless', oulipian constraints and concepts provide the tools that allow writers to engage critically and creatively with lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical genre. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival, self-examination, self-invention, and relating to the world and to others. As the title of Georges Perec's masterpiece suggests, they are a mode d'emploi for life.
Life as Creative Constraint
Author: Anna Kemp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800348444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but more interested in form than content and ultimately disengaged from the world. This book examines a broad corpus of work by Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud and Anne F. Garréta to show that, despite the group's early devotion to the radical impersonality of mathematics, later generations of oulipians have brought the group's fascination with systems, games and constraints to bear on autobiography. Far from being 'lifeless', oulipian constraints and concepts provide the tools that allow writers to engage critically and creatively with lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical genre. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival, self-examination, self-invention, and relating to the world and to others. As the title of Georges Perec's masterpiece suggests, they are a mode d'emploi for life.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800348444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but more interested in form than content and ultimately disengaged from the world. This book examines a broad corpus of work by Georges Perec, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Roubaud and Anne F. Garréta to show that, despite the group's early devotion to the radical impersonality of mathematics, later generations of oulipians have brought the group's fascination with systems, games and constraints to bear on autobiography. Far from being 'lifeless', oulipian constraints and concepts provide the tools that allow writers to engage critically and creatively with lived experience, and mine the potential of the autobiographical genre. The games played by these writers are not simply pastimes or cunning writing techniques, but modes of survival, self-examination, self-invention, and relating to the world and to others. As the title of Georges Perec's masterpiece suggests, they are a mode d'emploi for life.
Catalogue of Scientific Papers
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900): ser. 2 , 1864-1873
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Champion mode d'emploi
Author: Saïd Bouzid
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140059166
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : fr
Pages : 452
Book Description
Voici une "bible" à usage de tous ceux qui ont vocation à préparer les futurs champions. Bien préparer un athlète est chose complexe qui requiert la gestion de nombreux domaines d'expertise. En plus des impératifs techniques, un coach doit avoir des connaissances de diététique, de physiologie, de psychologie... Fruit d'une trentaine d'année d'expérience sur le terrain, cet ouvrage se veut pratique, illustré de témoignages à destination autant des coachs que des athlètes.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140059166
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : fr
Pages : 452
Book Description
Voici une "bible" à usage de tous ceux qui ont vocation à préparer les futurs champions. Bien préparer un athlète est chose complexe qui requiert la gestion de nombreux domaines d'expertise. En plus des impératifs techniques, un coach doit avoir des connaissances de diététique, de physiologie, de psychologie... Fruit d'une trentaine d'année d'expérience sur le terrain, cet ouvrage se veut pratique, illustré de témoignages à destination autant des coachs que des athlètes.
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1863) ; Compiled and Published by the Royal Society of London
Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900): ser. 2 , 1864-1873
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
The Oulipo and Modern Thought
Author: Dennis Duncan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019256742X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism, and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its light-hearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal: to investigate the potential of 'constraints' in the production of literature—that is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionate—though sometimes satirical—involvement with the major intellectual currents of the mid-twentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy: all come under discussion in the group's meetings, and all find their way in the group's exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used constrained writing as means of puckish engagement with the debates of their peers, and how, as the broader intellectual landscape altered, so too would the group's conception of what constrained writing can achieve.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019256742X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism, and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its light-hearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal: to investigate the potential of 'constraints' in the production of literature—that is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionate—though sometimes satirical—involvement with the major intellectual currents of the mid-twentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy: all come under discussion in the group's meetings, and all find their way in the group's exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used constrained writing as means of puckish engagement with the debates of their peers, and how, as the broader intellectual landscape altered, so too would the group's conception of what constrained writing can achieve.
The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
Author: Adam Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108758045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108758045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: Kevin L. Cope
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404622275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This reference work provides bibliographic details for students of 18th-century studies.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404622275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This reference work provides bibliographic details for students of 18th-century studies.