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Essay for Six Selections By The Oulipo: Getting Freedom from Contraint
Introduction
The text "Six Selections by the Oulipo" is a combination of 6 texts about Oulipo, which are:
One Hudred Thousand Billion Poems, Yours for the Telling by Raymond Queneau, A Brief History of the Oulipo by Jean Lescure, For a Potenteial Analysis of Combinatory
Literature by Claude Berge, Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou
Experiment by Paul Fournel and Prose and Anticombinatorics by Italo Calvino. Those articles give us a brief introduction, explanations and examples of Oulipo.
50 years ago, a group of French literatures lover established Oulipo (workshop of potential literature). Raymond Queneau (one of the original founders besides Francois Le Lionnais) noted that Oulipo is not a school of literature,a literature Seminer or experiments, but a natural, artificial and amusing workshop where people are able to make up their own writing rules and restricts, in order to spark inspirations and find the vieling possibilities of literature.
For instance: "Airplane" ( Abbreviation of words.The word "Jet" is the abbreviation abbreviation ), "Beau(belle) Present(e)" ( a poem which compound names of a person you cherished or hated ) or "s+n" ( replace each noun of an existing text by the "N"th noun after it found in a dictionary) etc.. .
In this essay, I will give my analysis of Oulipo from the perspective of the relationship between contraint and freedom of literature.
Body
Contraint
What are the Contraints
Common Point between Oulipo and the others
Functions of Contraint
Freedom
Maths, Philosophy, Oulipo
Back to Literature
Conclusion
Reference
Oulipo wiki
Notes Area
1. Intro:
1.What is Oulipo
2.Brief introduction of the texts.
2.Body:
1.Contraint:
1.Introduction of Contraint of Oulipo(rules and examples)
2.Comparison the common point between Oulipo and Jueju, Couplet(Chinese Poetry)
3.Contraint itself.
2.Potential literature:
1.Why Contraint is able to bring freedom(Maths, Philosophy)
2.Back to literature
3.Conclusion: