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The Pleasure of the Text

By Roland Barthes

Book information

Publisher
Hill and Wang
Year
1975
ISBN
0374521603, 9780374521608
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2268663 bytes)
Edition
Reissue
Pages
80\79
Time added
2017-02-07 19:21:18

Description

Trans. by Richard MillerWhat 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

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