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Article: Rabelais, Mode d'emploi: avec le plan du 'Pantagruel' suivant les jours de la semaine et les saints Sacrements de l'Eglise.(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Rabelais, Mode d'emploi: avec le plan du 'Pantagruel' suivant les jours de la semaine et les saints Sacrements de l'Eglise. By DANIEL MARTIN. Tours: Nizet. 2002. 232 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1267-6.
As many others have done, Daniel Martin analyses the structure of Pantagruel in order to clarify the meaning of the work. However, his approach is distinctive. He argues that Pantagruel is organized according to a mnemonic system, originally devised to help orators memorize speeches, and taught under the name of memoria in traditional rhetoric: the orator arranged his material in blocks; then he mentally associated each block with a place; and within each block, he ...