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Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature by Warren F. Motte, Jr.
Category: Culture | Series: Scholarly Series
A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Founded in Paris in 1960, the Oulipo views imaginative writing as ...Show more
The World Within the Word: Essays by William H. Gass
Category: Culture | Series: Scholarly Series
The World Within the Word, Gass's second published volume of criticism, is a landmark collection discussing Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. Revelatory and gorgeous, by turns humorous and devastating, it ...Show more
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