Pleasure of the Text

By:

Barthes, Roland

By:

Richard Miller

Publication details: New York: Hill and Wang, 1975Description: 67ISBN:

9780374521608

Subject(s):

Literature-Aesthetics

DDC classification:

801.93 BAR

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Alliance School of Liberal Arts	Alliance School of Design	801.93 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		LA03046

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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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