Eunoia The Upgraded Edition

Name: Eunoia The Upgraded Edition
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ISBN: 9781552452257

ISBN-10: 1552452255

ISBN-13: 9781552452257

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Christian Bok

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The word eunoia, which literally means beautiful thinking, is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (lOuvroir de Littrature Potentielle), a French writers group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling of the Iliad!).Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following,…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Coach House Books
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.79" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396

Christian B.k.began writing in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University. He returned to Toronto in the early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York Universtiy..Crystallography,.B.k's highly acclaimed poetry and prose book published in 1994.