Linda Brigham, in her review of My Mother, argues that the problem with complexity, “even organized complexity,” is that it tends to obscure any narrative “through-line.” For this, Brigham recommends the study of networks and network types that “trace the emergence of story from random bits of narrative.” Linda Brigham, in her review of My Mother, argues that the problem with complexity, “even organized complexity,” is that it tends to obscure any narrative “through-line.” For this, Brigham recommends the study of networks and network types that “trace the emergence of story from random bits o… continue

For a related essay that argues in support of Federman as a political thinker, see Jan Baetans’ review of Larry McCaffery’s Federman A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative. For a related essay that argues in support of Federman as a political thinker, see Jan Baetans’ review of Larry McCaffery’s Federman A to X-X-X-X: A Recyclopedic Narrative.

See the 1999/2000 collection of ebr essays Writing Under Constraint which explore how the use of numerical and other non-verbal constraints stimulate literary expression.

In addition to Michael Boyden’s interview with Harry Mathews, ebr has republished a number of Mathews’ short stories (“The Dialect of the Tribe” and the constrain-based “Mister Smathers”) and essays (“Fearful Symmetries” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese”).

See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses the issue of translation, referring to this essay and two other related pieces available on ebr: the story “Dialect of the Tribe” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese.” See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses the issue of translation, referring to this essay and two other related pieces available on ebr: the story “Dialect of the Tribe” and “Translation and the Oulipo: The Case of the Persevering Maltese.”

See also Michael Boyden’s interview with Mathews in which he discusses this essay, along with a story and essay available on ebr: “The Dialect of the Tribe” and “Fearful Symmetries.”

Michael Boyden’s essay “The Riddling Effect” contextualizes these three texts that Mathews refers to, all of which are now available on ebr: “The Dialect of the Tribe,” “Fearful Symmetries,” and “The Case of the Persevering Maltese.”

The generative aesthetic in fiction and poetry, and at least one example of generative writing by Paul Braffort, can be found in the ebr 1999/2000 special on Writing Under Constraint.

Conte, who like McHale has published books on both novelistic and poetic genres, is reviewed by Joseph Tabbi in ebr 2004. Conte, who like McHale has published books on both novelistic and poetic genres, is reviewed by Joseph Tabbi in ebr 2004.

Perloff reviews another theorist of a different kind of ‘difficult whole,’ Franco Moretti and his Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, in ebr 1998. Perloff reviews another theorist of a different kind of ‘difficult whole,’ Franco Moretti and his Modern Epic: The World-System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez, in ebr 1998.