The Pleasure of the Text
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374521608 (0374521603)
Publish date: January 1st 1975
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Pages no: 84
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
France,
Theory
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