Alison James (French, University of Chicago): "Transatlantic Oulipo: Procedure and Experiment in Contemporary Poetry"
Workshop in Poetics Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | 6:00pmStanford Humanities Center, Board Room Get Map
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford, CA 94305
The Event
Alison James (French, University of Chicago) specializes in modern and contemporary French literature. Her teaching and research interests include the Oulipo group, experimental poetry and prose, the connections between literature and philosophy, and representations of the everyday. Her book Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo has been recently published by Northwestern University Press (2009). She has edited a special issue of L'Esprit créateur on the theme of literary formalism (Summer 2008) and has published articles on Louis Aragon, Jacques Roubaud, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, and the philosopher Clément Rosset.
Alison will speak about the differing legacies of the Oulipo in French and American contexts, showing that the reception and influence of "constraint-based" writing has been shaped by the dialogue between criticism and creative work as well as by different conceptions of literary form and experimental practice.
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