Offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group. This study focuses on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts, including troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), and others. Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 535. . 2006. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Title: Jacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0807892890
ISBN 13: 9780807892893
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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Jean-Jacques Poucel provides a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Litt�rature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature). Drawing from a variety of literary theories, Poucel argues that the Oulipian practice of writing under constraint provides a new vehicle for literary memory, one that strengthens the terms by which poetic traditions are condensed, transformed, and transmitted. In addition to situating the importance of Roubaud’s work within a broad contemporary context, the eight chapters of this study focus on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud’s favorite source texts, including key fragments culled from troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), early surrealist writing, the mathematics of Bourbaki, and the work of Oulipian writers such as Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino.

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Jean-Jacques F. Poucel is assistant professor of French at Yale University.

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