Francis Ponge, Gradus ad Parnassum
In order to fully comprehend what an exercise is according to Francis Ponge, there may be no better way than to open the Littré. There, one will discover that even though “exercise” is indeed a synonym for “training”, “to exercise” something is “to verify that it functions”. Émile Littré especially...
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| description | In order to fully comprehend what an exercise is according to Francis Ponge, there may be no better way than to open the Littré. There, one will discover that even though “exercise” is indeed a synonym for “training”, “to exercise” something is “to verify that it functions”. Émile Littré especially insists on the fact that in etymological terms the verb “exercise” comes from Latin ex arcere, a phrase itself meaning “to force out of”, “to deliver”. In this article, we shall put to the test those (complementary) definitions of the notion of exercise in a few of Francis Ponge’s writings. We particularly aim to demonstrate that this author, who sometimes pretends to be in a classroom (in which he would be both a teacher and a pupil), considers joy as the ultimate goal of his work: the moment of “deliverance” – that of “successful” wording - is the moment of climax. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-03698c9e44bf4c4db21a4a8b71cda1e72022-12-21T20:02:06ZfraUniversité de LilleMethodos1769-73792021-01-012110.4000/methodos.7612Francis Ponge, Gradus ad ParnassumFrançois BerquinIn order to fully comprehend what an exercise is according to Francis Ponge, there may be no better way than to open the Littré. There, one will discover that even though “exercise” is indeed a synonym for “training”, “to exercise” something is “to verify that it functions”. Émile Littré especially insists on the fact that in etymological terms the verb “exercise” comes from Latin ex arcere, a phrase itself meaning “to force out of”, “to deliver”. In this article, we shall put to the test those (complementary) definitions of the notion of exercise in a few of Francis Ponge’s writings. We particularly aim to demonstrate that this author, who sometimes pretends to be in a classroom (in which he would be both a teacher and a pupil), considers joy as the ultimate goal of his work: the moment of “deliverance” – that of “successful” wording - is the moment of climax.http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/7612exercisemasterpieceshow-and-tellincompletionclimaxPonge Francis |
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