Exercises in StyleQueneau uses a variety of literary styles and forms in ninety-nine exercises which retell the same story about a minor brawl aboard a bus. |
Contents
NOTATION 21 DOUBLE ENTRY | 21 |
LITOTES | 23 |
METAPHORICALLY | 24 |
RETROGRADE | 25 |
SURPRISES | 26 |
DREAM | 28 |
PROGNOSTICATION | 29 |
SYNCHYSIS | 31 |
BIASED | 109 |
SONNET | 112 |
OLFACTORY | 114 |
GUSTATORY | 115 |
TACTILE | 117 |
VISUAL | 119 |
AUDITORY | 121 |
TELEGRAPHIC | 123 |
THE RAINBOW | 32 |
WORD GAME | 33 |
HESITATION | 35 |
PRECISION | 37 |
THE SUBJECTIVE SIDE | 39 |
ANOTHER SUBJECTIVITY | 41 |
NARRATIVE | 43 |
WORDCOMPOSITION | 45 |
NEGATIVITIES | 46 |
ANIMISM | 48 |
ANAGRAMS | 50 |
DISTINGUO | 51 |
HOMEOPTOTES | 53 |
OFFICIAL LETTER | 54 |
BLURB | 56 |
ΟΝΟΜΑΤΟΡΟΕΙΑ | 58 |
LOGICAL ANALYSIS | 60 |
INSISTENCE | 62 |
IGNORANCE | 65 |
PAST | 67 |
PRESENT | 69 |
REPORTED SPEECH | 70 |
PASSIVE | 72 |
ALEXANDRINES | 74 |
POLYPTOTES | 76 |
APHERESIS | 78 |
APOCOPE | 79 |
SYNCOPE | 80 |
SPEAKING PERSONALLY | 81 |
EXCLAMATIONS | 83 |
YOU KNOW | 85 |
NOBLE | 86 |
COCKNEY | 88 |
CROSSEXAMINATION | 90 |
COMEDY | 92 |
Asides | 95 |
PARECHESIS | 97 |
SPECTRAL | 98 |
PHILOSOPHIC | 100 |
APOSTROPHE | 102 |
AWKWARD | 104 |
CASUAL | 107 |
125 | 125 |
PERMUTATIONS BY GROUPS OF 2 3 4 AND 5 LETTERS | 129 |
PERMUTATIONS BY GROUPS OF 5 6 7 AND 8 LETIERS | 131 |
PERMUTATIONS BY GROUPS OF 9 10 II AND 12 | 132 |
PERMUTATIONS BY GROUPS OF 1 2 3 AND 4 WORDS | 133 |
HELLENISMS | 134 |
REACTIONARY | 136 |
HAIKU | 139 |
FREE VERSE | 140 |
FEMININE | 142 |
GALLICISMS | 145 |
PROSTHESIS | 146 |
EPENTHESIS | 148 |
PARAGOGE | 150 |
PARTS OF SPEECH | 152 |
METATHESIS | 154 |
CONSEQUENCES | 155 |
PROPER NAMES | 157 |
RHYMING SLANG | 158 |
BACK SLANG | 159 |
ANTIPHRASIS | 161 |
DOG LATIN | 162 |
MORE OR LESS | 164 |
OPERA ENGLISH | 165 |
FOR ZE FRRENSH | 169 |
SPOONERISMS | 170 |
BOTANICAL | 171 |
MEDICAL | 173 |
ABUSIVE | 175 |
GASTRONOMICAL | 177 |
ZOOLOGICAL | 179 |
FUTILE | 180 |
MODERN STYLE | 182 |
PROBABILIST | 184 |
PORTRAIT | 186 |
MATHEMATICAL | 188 |
WEST INDIAN | 190 |
INTERJECTIONS | 191 |
PRECIOUS | 192 |
UNEXPECTED | 195 |
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