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| | Essay Assignment #2, English 111-19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The purpose of this essay option is to examine the relationship is between Queneau’s Exercises and the group of writers and mathematicians known as “Oulipo”—a group very interested in mathematical and highly constrained approaches to writing and literature. |
 | | If there is anything that ties your exercises together, discuss it; if your exercises provide insight or a demonstration of some feature of narrative, constraints, etc., discuss it. |
 | | Then choose 3-5 of Queneau’s “exercises” that you feel, when taken together, have some qualities in common, like similar types of constraints, or that differ in similar but important ways on a single feature, i.e. |
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