The Pleasure Of The Text
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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
- Paperback | 77 pages
- 135.64 x 220 x 6.35mm | 99.79g
- 01 Jun 1980
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- New York, United States
- English
- Reissue
- 0374521603
- 9780374521608
