Paul A. Harris
Texts available On-line
"Harry Mathews' Al Gore Rhythms"
A review of three recently reissued novels by the only American member of Oulipo."Time in the Shadow of the Sign"
An essay I wrote on George Perec's Life A User's Manual, forthcoming in French translation, which analyzes chapter 99 in depth."Sleepless in Seattle" (on In.s.omnia.) electronic book review #1.
A review of Invisible Rendezvous, a work by In.s.omnia, a writing collective inspired by Oulipo.Texts available in Print
“Scaling Mortality to the Letter: Georges Perec’s Stylistic Mechanics of Death.”
In Time, Order, Chaos:
The Study of Time IX. J.T. Fraser, Marlene P. Soulsby, Alexander Argyros,
eds. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1998: 51-62.
“Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams and Oulipian Writing as Virtual Signs”
In Reading Matters: Narratives in the New Media Ecology, ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz
( Cornell U. Press, 1997):
136-56.
“The Invention of Forms: Perec’s Life A User’s Manual and a Virtual Sense of the Real.”
SubStance 74 (Vol.
XXIII,2): 56-85.
“Italo Calvino: The Code, The Clinamen, and Cities.”
Mosaic 23/4: Fall 1990: 67-85.