Cent mille milliards de poèmes

Creative Work
Author: 
Raymond Queneau
Year: 
1961
Language: 
French
Publication Type: 
Print publication (antecedent)
Record Status: 
Approved record
Tags: 
combinatory poeticswriting under constraintOulipoantecedents
Description (in English): 

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.

Electronic Literature Directory entry: 
Electronic Literature Directory entry
Other language version: 
Cent mille milliards de poèmes (web version, 1997)

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Hyperfiktion und interaktive Narration Beat Suter 2000
Hypertext: Merkmale, Forschung, Poetik Roberto Simanowski 2002
Hyperworks: On Digital Literature and Computer Games Anna Gunder 2004
Language as Gameplay: toward a vocabulary for describing works of electronic literature Brian Kim Stefans 2012
Leituras de Nós: Ciberespaço e Literatura Alckmar Luiz dos Santos 2003
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Multimodal Editing and Archival Performance: A Diagrammatic Essay on Transcoding Experimental Literature Manuel Portela 2014
Next Generation Literary Machines: The “Dynamic Network Aesthetic” of Contemporary Poetry Generators Holly Dupej 2012
Nonlinear Writing Astrid Ensslin 2014
Písanie v interaktívnych médiách. Digitálna fikcia /Writing in the Interactive Media. Digital Fiction Zuzana Husárová 2009
Pour une littérature cyborg : l'hybridation médiatique du texte littéraire Anaïs Guilet 2013
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media N. Katherine Hayles 2004
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner Hans Kristian Rustad 2008
The Digital Reception of a Hundred Thousand Billion Poems Jonathan Baillehache 2014
The Emergence of Electronic Literature Exhibition Catalogue Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg 2013
The Marketization of Net Art Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen 2013
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