The Pleasure of the Text - Softcover
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthesā€™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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Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.
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- PublisherHill & Wang
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0809013800
- ISBN 13 9780809013807
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