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 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

Author: Roland Barthes
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 01/01/1975
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.34w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780374521608
Language: English