Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Literary Constraint

by Louis Bury

Exercises in Criticism is an experiment in applied poetics in which critic and poet Louis Bury utilizes constraint-based methods in order to write about constraint-based literature. By tracing the lineage and enduring influence of early Oulipian classics, he argues that contemporary American writers have, in their adoption of constraint-based methods, transformed such methods from apolitical literary laboratory exercises into a form of cultural critique,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628971053
• ISBN13: 9781628971057
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher