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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
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The pleasure of the text, Roland Barthes
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- 1975
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- Title
- The pleasure of the text
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roland Barthes
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Released
- 1975
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0374521603
- ISBN13
- 9780374521608
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Art & Culture, True Stories, Literary Studies, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, France, Opinion Journalism & Essays, French Literature, Art History & Criticism, Writing, Literary Criticism, Scientific Theories, Selected works, Writers, Reading, Aphorisms, Aesthetics, Creative Writing, Semiotics, Speech
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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