The Pleasure of the Text (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1975
First published:	1975
Authors:	Roland Barthes
Dimensions:	211 x 136 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	67
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-52160-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-374-52160-3
Barcode:	9780374521608

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!