Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Timeline: "The Oulipo"

1961 - "A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems" by Raymond Queneau was written which is a set of ten sonnets. The idea is that any line from a sonnet can be combined with any line from the other 9 because they all have the same rhyme scheme, allowing for the creation of a hundred thousand billion poems.

1973 - "Yours for the Telling" written by Raymond Queneau which is basically showing how writers can utilize technology to create their works... this is hypertext technology.

1973 - "For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature" by Claude Berg was published.

1981 - "Computer and Writer: The Centre Pompidou Experiment" by Paul Fournel was published.

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