J. H. Prynne

Daniel C. Remein

Barbara Clayton

Louis Bury

Carsten Madsen

Volume 3 of the journal Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. http: //glossator.org

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

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, whose usage is surprisingly widespread, particularly among poets and "experimental" novelists. More, Bury's own use of critical constraints functions as a commentary on how and why we write and talk about books, culture, and ideas.

Louis Bury

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