The Pleasure of the Text |
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Author:
| Barthes, Roland |
Translator:
| Miller, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-0-374-52160-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1975 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Imprint: | Hill & Wang |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in...
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard