Oulipo and Modern Thought

This volume provides a readable yet rigorous account of the impact of the Oulipo, one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Secret of Lightness


• 1: Literature Machines: StructurElism versus StructurAlism


• 2: The Punning Muse: Psychoanalysis and Homophonic Translation


• 3: Surrealism's Subject: Two Cohorts of the Oulipo


• 4: Calvino at a Crossroads: Combinatorics and Anticombinatorics


• 5: Perec and Mathews: Translation and Analytic Philosophy in the South Seas


• Conclusion

About the author

Dennis Duncan is a writer and translator based in London. He is currently writing a history of the book index, from the medieval period to the age of the Kindle, to be published by Penguin in 2020 and is co-editor of Book Parts (with Adam Smyth, Oxford University Press, 2019). His recent articles have considered Mallarmé and jugs, James Joyce and pornography, and the history of the Times New Roman typeface. Dr Duncan writes on bibliography and French literature for the Times Literary Supplement, and has published translations of Michel Foucault, Boris Vian, and Alfred Jarry.

Summary

This volume provides a readable yet rigorous account of the impact of the Oulipo, one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century.

Additional text

Dennis Duncan's short and lively book seeks to rescue Oulipo from the margins of French intellectual life

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Duncan, Dennis (Writer and Translator) Duncan, Duncan Dennis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198831631
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883163-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Französisch, French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000