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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 HowardProduct Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780374521608
eBay Product ID (ePID)201259549
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Book TitleThe Pleasure of the Text
AuthorRoland Barthes
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year1975
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Title_AuthorRoland Barthes
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States