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  • An American Priory of Sion researcher, the anthropologist Dr. Steven Mizrach, has even identified the French surrealist tradition that flourished in the 1960s known as Oulipo, in which “hoaxes” involving complex codes and cryptograms, hidden symbolism in paintings and literature, and ingenious wordplay would be devised aspure art, then let loose upon an unsuspecting public to see how it would react.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • An American Priory of Sion researcher, the anthropologist Dr. Steven Mizrach, has even identified the French surrealist tradition that flourished in the 1960s known as Oulipo, in which “hoaxes” involving complex codes and cryptograms, hidden symbolism in paintings and literature, and ingenious wordplay would be devised aspure art, then let loose upon an unsuspecting public to see how it would react.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • An American Priory of Sion researcher, the anthropologist Dr. Steven Mizrach, has even identified the French surrealist tradition that flourished in the 1960s known as Oulipo, in which “hoaxes” involving complex codes and cryptograms, hidden symbolism in paintings and literature, and ingenious wordplay would be devised aspure art, then let loose upon an unsuspecting public to see how it would react.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • MadInkBeard is a blog dedicated to the idea of formal constraints in writing; as the About page says:I've been interested in the (mostly French) group called the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle) ever since I discovered the writings of Italo Calvino and (thanks to him) Raymond Queneau (both being members, the latter one of the founding-presidents).

    languagehat.com: OULIPIAN BLOG. 2004

  • 'Oulipo' you'll get a better definition than I could give you mid-p. s.

    DC's 2009

  • Invited by Raymond Queneau to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) group of experimental writers, he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom influenced his later production.

    italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • You may have more options if you are looking to publish with independent and university presses, who are often helmed by awesome and brilliant (if penniless) people who are much more open to the idea of, say, a surrealist short fiction collection, or an experimental novel written as an homage to Oulipo.

    The Cold and Ugly Light of Truth: Special MFA Edition 2010

  • You may have more options if you are looking to publish with independent and university presses, who are often helmed by awesome and brilliant (if penniless) people who are much more open to the idea of, say, a surrealist short fiction collection, or an experimental novel written as an homage to Oulipo.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • With Cooper having spent much of his time in France over the last several years, away from his native Los Angeles, The Marbled Swarm seems explicitly continental, with touches of the Oulipo Group's literary capering and a tasteful amount of cult-Euro name drops, from Isabelle Adjani to Alain Robb-Grillet.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011

  • With Cooper having spent much of his time in France over the last several years, away from his native Los Angeles, The Marbled Swarm seems explicitly continental, with touches of the Oulipo Group's literary capering and a tasteful amount of cult-Euro name drops, from Isabelle Adjani to Alain Robb-Grillet.

    Brian Joseph Davis: A Literary Outlaw in Paris: Interview With Dennis Cooper Brian Joseph Davis 2011

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  • see comments at oulipo. This is another word where the root form on this page is undefined (where Wiktionary.org has a definition), while its Reverse Dictionary tags xref to an inflection (Oulipian) that *does* source the Wiktionary def.

    March 9, 2021

  • Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo)

    May 4, 2022