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	Oulipo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle", which translates roughly as "workshop of potential literature".
		Oulipo was founded on November 24, 1960, as a subcommittee of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique entitled Séminaire de littérature expérimentale.
		Note that Oulipo members are still considered members after their deaths, although dead members are excused from group meetings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oulipo (707 words)

	OUBAPO - America - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) was founded in 1960 by author and poet Raymond Queneau and mathematician François Le Lyonnais.
		Oulipo was founded in order to further explore the possibilities of creating literature using what came to be known as constraints: rules, often mathematically determined, that dictate a certain formal principle a work has to follow, and which challenge writers to use the full extent of their creativity in following them.
		Oulipo is not concerned with tearing down works of the past in order to construct a new paradigm.
	www.newhatstories.com /oubapo/about (707 words)

	Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature - ed. Warren F. Motte Jr.
		Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature includes a Foreword by Noël Arnaud, an Introduction by Warren Motte, nineteen pieces by members of the Oulipo (including pieces by Perec, Calvino, Mathews, and Queneau), and an extensive (if not complete) bibliography and brief biographies of those associated with the Oulipo.
		The Oulipo -- Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (generally translated as "Workshop for Potential Literature") -- was founded in 1960, "a secret laboratory of literary structures", as Arnaud describes it in his foreword.
		Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature is both more focussed and more expansive, covering and presenting a great deal of material as well, but offering more detailed and lengthier considerations of the topics.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/oulipo/oprimer.htm (875 words)

	The Oulipo: Constraints & Collaboration
		While the work of the Oulipo has received more attention with the translation of Georges Perec's La Disparitions (a novel without the letter E) into its English counterpart, A Void, it seems as though their explorations have been presented to be admired, rather than utilized.
		The Oulipo, both in their practice of writing with innovative constraints and the fact of their shared laboratory, offers its knowledge to writers and writing teachers alike.
		The Oulipo saw itself as opening an infinite space of potential literature and assumed that the writers of the future would benefit as much from their work as they themselves did.
	www.wordwork.org /20/essays/oulipo.html (2338 words)

	Harry Matthew/Oulipo
		Much more novel are their MOEBIUS STRIP poems - write the first half of a poem on one side of a strip of paper, the second on the other side upside down, then twist the strip of paper, join the ends, and read the result as a continuous poem.
		Akin to the 'interactive' novel, and earlier than it, was OULIPO's use of JUNCTURE poems - points where the reader must choose from alternatives, and so be led to a different next section of the poem depending on the choice made.
		A huge variety of other techniques have been used for OULIPO poetry, but these instances are enough to give a clear flavour of the approach and hopefully to encourage other poets to try for yourselves the intriguing - and, as said, liberating -effects that can be achieved.
	www.lacan.com /matthews.htm (1274 words)

	Oulipo Compendium - ed. Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie
		Oulipo explores the possibility of other constraints -- some of which seem, at first glance, very odd.
		The compendium then goes through all aspects of Oulipo, providing brief biographies of all the members, summaries of many of the most significant works, and explanations of all the Oulipian terminology.
		The Oulipo is the best-known group, but the methods and approaches have also been adopted in other fields.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/oulipo/ocompend.htm (1749 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Into the Maze: OULIPO
		In the words of Raymond Queneau, Oulipo’s co-founder, Oulipians are "Rats who build the labyrinth from which they will try to escape." Even if you’ve never heard of Oulipo, if you’ve written something beside e-mails, then you probably know what this metaphor means.
		The concerns of the original members of the Oulipo were, at least, two-fold: on the one hand they wanted to write literature that could not be easily consumed and disposed of, literature that was always in the making.
		A book like the Oulipo Compendium, published in 1998, has made language play seem accessible to anyone willing to try their hand at the different forms and procedures it features, or at inventing new ones.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5916 (905 words)

	Reading Potential: The Oulipo and the Meaning of Algorithms
		Although there are similarities between the activities of the Oulipo and the new approach to computer-assisted literary analysis, the development of tools for the express purpose of encouraging scholars outside of humanities computing to play with texts does not follow the model of Oulipian research into potentialities.
		For the Oulipo, the invention of procedures for playing with texts is not necessarily a means to greater engagement with literature: it is its own end, an intellectual activity that invites application but does not require adoption by others as an indication of success.
		Writing is a derivative activity: the Oulipo pursue what we might call speculative or theoretical literature and leave the application of the constraints to practitioners who may (or may not) find their procedures useful.
	mustard.tapor.uvic.ca /cocoon/ach_abstracts/xq/xhtml.xq?id=45 (1395 words)

	CONTEXT: Lipo: first and second manifestos by Francois Le Lionnais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The activity of the Oulipo and the mission it has entrusted to itself raise the problem of the efficacy and the viability of artificial (and, more generally, artistic) literary structures.
		The Oulipo has preferred to put its shoulder to the wheel, recognizing furthermore that the elaboration of artificial literary structures would seem to be infinitely less complicated and less difficult than the creation of life.
		We make it a point of honor to recognize such a state of things in qualifying the text in question as "plagiarism by anticipation." Thus justice is done, and each is rewarded according to his merit.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no6/lionnais.html (1968 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Poetic Techniques: OULIPO
		One of the most popular OULIPO formulas is "N+7," in which the writer takes a poem already in existence and substitutes each of the poem’s substantive nouns with the noun appearing seven nouns away in the dictionary.
		Another OULIPO exercise uses the "snowball" technique, where the first line is one word long, the second line has two words, and so on.
		If the results of these formulas are strange, unintelligible, or seem too drastic, the OULIPO artists would argue that for generations poets have set structural constraints on themselves, from the sonnet to the sestina.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5785 (317 words)

	books about: oulipo (interdisciplinary science-speak anti-classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In addition, this book is a good introduction to the aesthetics of Oulipo, a group of writers who are underappreciated by the American audience.
		In the past the role of memory was integral to literary history, precise mnemonics served as the support systems for erudition, and Mnemosyne was mother of the Muses.
		The group Oulipo, born in reaction to the Surrealists, proposes, invents, and applies novel literary constraints.
	www.very-clever.com /books/oulipo (474 words)

	Waggish: Oulipo Tangent: John Sladek
		I was always surprised that there wasn't more overlap between the Oulipo and science fiction, since both fields were among the most ready to dispose of character and meaning in search of advances in their respective fields.
		There have been a few sf authors over the years who have tried Oulipo experiments, and probably more recently that I don't know about: the latest I know of is Geoff Ryman's 253, which also happens to be one of the more successful hypertexts out there.
		I believe it succeeds on its own terms, but it does come off as a bit of an exercise, a left-brained excursion in assembling fragments that's closer to computer programming than to writing a novel--which is not a criticism.
	www.waggish.org /2003/03/oulipo_tangent_john_sladek.html (891 words)

	The Reading Experience: More on Oulipo
		Many of the early Oulipo manifestos evoke the quoted sort of theory that doesn't seem to hold for the majority of what has come from the group.
		And outside of that, while the Oulipo certainly brought the idea of "constraint" to a fore, they are not necessarily the arbiters.
		I find this a bit of a problematic aspect of the oulipo manifestos because I think the issue of chance is clouded by the group's founders' hostility to the Surrealists and that adds an unpleasantly polemic tone to their rejection of all things aleatory.
	noggs.typepad.com /the_reading_experience/2004/12/more_on_oulipo.html (1378 words)

	Who's Who in Oulipo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is a linguist and medieval scholar, a professor at the Université de Paris VII and an active reformer of the French language, having served as vice president of the
		He was a mathematics professor in Reims, a member of the College of Pataphysics, a composer and an inventor of several musical instruments, including an altocello, a bass flute and an electronic orchestra conductor.
		It was he who suggested shortening "Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle" to just "Oulipo." He wrote novels and served as private general secretary to the baron vice-curator of the College of Pataphysics.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~jvenema/oulipo/who'swhoinoulipo.htm (1523 words)

	village voice > books > by Jonathan Bing
		Founded in 1960 by the novelist and polymath Raymond Queneau and the mathematical historian François Le Lionnais, Oulipo (an acronym for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a motley organization of writers and mathematicians who use fiendishly elaborate arithmetic formulae as vehicles for the composition of poetry and fiction.
		Oulipo's profile on these shores rose significantly with the publication three years ago of A Void, Gilbert Adair's dazzling translation of George Perec's rollicking, lipogrammatical 1969 whodunit, La disparition, which he wrote without recourse to the letter e.
		Oulipo isn't likely to become a household word anytime soon, because its literary hijinks sometimes prove so convoluted as to be virtually unreadable.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9846/bing.php (885 words)

	Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (Warren Motte Jr)
		Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (Warren Motte Jr)
		The Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Oulipo, was a group of French writers and mathematicians devoted to the discovery of new literary forms (and the rediscovery of old ones), the conscious use of formal constraints, exploration of the connections between mathematics and literature, and a playful approach to writing.
		Motte has done his best with this work to provide an accessible introduction to the Oulipo for English speakers, but it is not a complete success.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Oulipo.html (172 words)

	Amazon.ca: Oulipo Compendium: Books: Harry (ed) Mathews,a (ed) Brotchie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For me, the one of the greatest things gleaned from Oulipo is just the general sense that therec are sooo many more conceptual and logistical systems out there that you haven't even touched upon yet but that are waiting.
		If not, here's the gist: Oulipo are a bunch of slightly crazy people who want to find new and fun ways to write stuff.
		Features basic Oulipo tool set, assorted sizes of screwdrivers and ice-picks, sestina modifiers, biographies of oulipo participants side-by-side with multiple permutations of the N+7 theorem, socket wrenches with 70 sockets and 5 fingers and toes, and an especially amusing photograph of Georges Perec wearing a saucy beard.
	www.amazon.ca /Oulipo-Compendium-Harry-ed-Mathews/dp/1900565188 (682 words)

	Oulipo Compendium
		Though largely unknown in the United States, Queneau is a direct precursor to much that is most interesting and influential in modern continental literature, from surrealism and le nouveau roman to contemporary experimentalism and the postmodern.
		If 'Pataphysics was, as claimed, the science of imaginary solutions, then Oulipo might be described as that of imaginary problems, a small monument to man's stubborn insistence upon making things as difficult as possible for himself.
		Included are discussions of such Oulipo keystones as Queneau's Exercises in Style and Georges Perec's Life A User's Manual, as well as generous samples of work from the panoply of Oulipian activity.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR24.1/sallis.html (1002 words)

	OuLiPo \| MetaFilter
		This isn't a double, since the links themselves are all, or mostly, new, but here's a previous oulipo thread.
		I'll be the first to admit that having grown up playing algorithm-driven video games might have something to do with my interest in the realm of the "potential" or "process-driven" literature of the Oulipo.
		Not that MAD hasn't already done it a few dozen times, but this one has the Oulipo cred to fill it out.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/38034 (760 words)

	OULIPO
		OULIPO is the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians.
		Among the many peculiar procedures developed by Oulipo is the S+7 method, where each substantive or noun in a given text, such as a poem, is systematically replaced by the noun to be found seven places away in a chosen dictionary.
		La Page Oulipo (in French, of course) This site has information about subscribing to the oulipo mailing list.
	www.nous.org.uk /oulipo.html (279 words)

	noulipo \| REDCAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This year our focus is on the legacy of the French literary group Oulipo, inviting a conversation between the originators of this major experimental collective and some of their English speaking counterparts and heirs.
		Our aim is to discuss currents in contemporary writing that combine strategies developed by members of the Oulipo with other techniques, to move beyond an oppositional idea of form and develop new modes of wordwork that challenge structures of domination by seriously playing with the wor(l)d.
		While admiring the sonnet—even taking the form to its ultimate limit—the Oulipo also draw on formal mathematics as a source of devices for the creation of literature.
	redcat.org /season/0506/cnv/noulipo.php (616 words)

	Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio
		In the Oulipo tradition of imposing constraint on the creative process (read more), each submission must exhibit a distinct production style and include a specific first sentence and three particular sounds, which have been pre-selected by the Third Coast Festival and Madden.
		Four submissions will be chosen as the official 2006 TCF ShortDocs and presented by their producers at the TCF Conference this fall.
		In "Exercises in Style," one of the seminal examples of Oulipo literature, Queneau rewrote a two-paragraph short story in 99 different ways, with each version exhibiting a distinct style of its own.
	www.thirdcoastfestival.org /shortdocs_2006_archive.asp (1239 words)

	Oulipo Compendium (Mathews, Brotchie) - book review
		The Oulipo is a (largely French) group devoted to "potential literature", broadly the use of rigorous formal constraints in literature.
		In the Oulipo Compendium Harry Mathews, a member of the Oulipo himself, has produced the best guide to the group and its ideas available in English.
		As well as the Oulipo, eighty pages are devoted to related endeavours: the Oulipopo (crime fiction), the Oupeinpo (painting), and assorted Ou-x-pos.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Oulipo_Compendium.html (383 words)

	Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The word "Oulipo" is the acronym of the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or Workshop for potential literature, a group founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais.
		A parenthetical point: the Oulipo is not a literary school.
		A member of the Oulipo since 1972, he is currently co-editing Oulipo Compendium, an archival work to be published by Atlas Press in the spring of 1997.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/electropoetics/ethno-linguist (5154 words)

	Posts tagged with oulipo \| MetaFilter
		The circle has since expanded, welcoming those outside of France and beyond literary genius.
		Oulipo and its effects upon the literary world still exist today.
		Some products of this group's eccentricity are a novel lacking the letter "e" (in both original French and its English translation) (by Georges Perec, who also needs a direct link here), a novel both self-referential and circular, and 100,000,000,000,000 sonnets made from interchangeable lines.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/oulipo (114 words)

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