| The Pleasure of the Text Contributor(s): Barthes, Roland (Author), Miller, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374521603 ISBN-13: 9780374521608 Publisher: Hill & Wang OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1975 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.93 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.34" W x 8.3" (0.22 lbs) 80 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Barthes, Roland: - Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover's Discourse. |