Cent mille milliards de poèmes

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1961
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A book of sonnets were the pages are cut into strips so that you can combine the first line of one sonnet with the second line of any other sonnet and so on, thus generating, possibly, "a hundred thousand billion poems". An antecedent of computationally generated poetry.

Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Year
A Ciberliteratura: Criação Literária e Computador Pedro Barbosa 1996
A Interatividade na Poesia Digital Otávio Guimarães Tavares 2009
A Literatura Factorial [l!] Álvaro Seiça 2013
An Emerging Canon? A Preliminary Analysis of All References to Creative Works in Critical Writing Documented in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Scott Rettberg 2013
Artificial Poetry: On Aesthetic Perception in Computer-Aided Literature Peter Gendolla 2009
Autorschaft und digitale Literatur: Geschichte, Medienpraxis und Theoriebildung Heiko Zimmermann 2015
Barroquismos Digitais Otávio Guimarães Tavares 2013
Border Connections in Electronic Literature Carles Sora 2015
Combination and Copulation: Making Lots of Little Poems Aden Evens 2018
Comedies of Separation: Toward a Theory of the Ludic Book Brian Kim Stefans 2011
Computerpoesie: Studien zur Modifikation poetischer Texte durch den Computer Saskia Reither 2003
Creating Screen-Based Multiple State Environments: Investigating Systems of Confutation Donna Leishman 2004
Creativity Support for Computational Literature Daniel C. Howe 2009
Cyberspace, Virtuality and the Text Marie-Laure Ryan 1999
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory Markku Eskelinen 2012
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth 1997
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 2011
Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes Noah Wardrip-Fruin 2011
Digital Poetry Leonardo L. Flores
Electronic Literature Scott Rettberg 2018
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