The Pleasure Of The Text

by Roland Barthes

2021-05-26 02:53:26

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 re... Read more

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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ISBN9780374521608
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 Nov 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenc...

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