Exam Flashcards
(35 cards)
conceptual writing often invokes a _______ rather than a _________.
thinkership; readership.
How does concrete poetry relate to conceptual writing?
both are not really about reading - concrete poetry is about seeing, conceptual writing is about the concept, knowing the concept; less of a focus on language
who founded Oulipo? What other group were they a part of first?
Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Collège de pataphysique
what does oulipo stand for?
ouvroir de littérature potentielle
What was the process for the making of Injun? Who wrote it?
Jordan Abel made this text by dropping 91 western novels in the public domain into one document and searched for the word “injun”. he then copied all these sentences into one 26 page document which he cut up randomly into smaller pieces and pieced together somewhat randomly as well
What is the source derek beaulieu drew upon for flatland?
E. A. Abbott’s science fiction novella “Flatland”
what were beaulieu’s methods for flatland?
He photocopied each page of the novella and then used a light table, ink, and a ruler to draw lines connecting the first instance of each letter in each line of the text subsequently.
What is the rationale behind beaulieu’s methodology?
his methods collapse the text into a two dimensional world of polygons formed through the intersections between the lines, reminiscent of the two dimensional world in Abbott’s original text
Who compiled (wrote?) Their Biography?
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff
Whose poem does Bok rewrite at the end of Eunoia? What is it called?
Arthur Rimbaud - Voyelles
What type of text is Eunoia?
univocal lipogram
What must all chapters of Eunoia contain? (4 things)
a culinary banquet
a prurient debauch
a pastoral tableau
a nautical voyage
What must all chapters of Eunoia allude to?
the art of writing
What technique does Eunoia use to accent internal rhyme?
syntactical parallelism
What story does Eunoia retell?
The iliad
Name some sources Fenn Stewart draws from
John locke, shakespeare, nietzsche, voltaire, wordsworth, wikipedia, the OED, google, email spam, websites about lake ontario and its fishes, and is pollution, debbie: an epic
Describe the concept behind Debbie: An Epic
This book rewrites Virgil’s Aeneid to reveal the hidden female subject (in the form of Debbie) often ignored or erased in the Western canon of literature. Robertson also draws upon the works of Freud; Debbie is revealed to be a hysteric.
Name 6 key components of conceptual writing
copying/appropriation
concept is important above all else
Constraint-based writing
subjectivity/self-hood/identity/authorship
pure realism/honest representation of language
Meaning/purpose
Who founded conceptual writing and where?
Goldsmith, Place, Darren Wershler, and Bok at a bar in Buffalo
Why is conceptual writing interested in appropriation?
too much language out there already; should rearrange what’s there instead of adding more; mass production of books - language available in abundance, oversaturation
Who coined the term ‘Pataphysics?
Alfred Jarry
What is pataphysics
an absurdist realm beyond and beside physics - the science of imaginary solutions - deals with imaginary phenomena
What is the clinamen atomorum?
atomic swerve - atoms colliding with each other create a spiralling shape and stick together, producing the natural world (for us, atomic swerve is the text produced by the clinamen)
What group started pataphysics
collège de pataphysique in France, 1948
