The Pleasure of the Text
Author(s): Roland Barthes; Richard Miller (translator)
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
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Hill & Wang
- : Hill & Wang
- : 0.1
- : 01 January 1996
- : 220mm X 136mm X 6mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 77
- : Paperback
- : Roland Barthes; Richard Miller (translator)