Jacques Roubaud And the Invention of Memory

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Jacques F. Poucel is assistant professor of French at Yale University. Klappentext Jean-Jacques Poucel provides a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature). Drawing from a variety of literary theories, Poucel argues that the Oulipian practice of writing under constraint provides a new vehicle for literary memory, one that strengthens the terms by which poetic traditions are condensed, transformed, and transmitted. In addition to situating the importance of Roubaud's work within a broad contemporary context, the eight chapters of this study focus on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts, including key fragments culled from troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), early surrealist writing, the mathematics of Bourbaki, and the work of Oulipian writers such as Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino. Zusammenfassung Offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud! a prominent member of the French experimental group. This study focuses on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts! including troubadour poetry! the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere! Japanese short forms (waka)! and others.

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• Authors: Jean-Jacques Poucel, Jean-Jacques F Poucel, Jean-Jacques F. Poucel
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780807892893
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9289-3
• No. of pages: 287
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures; North Carolina Studies in the; North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies