The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes. Translated by Richard Miller. With a Note on the Text by Richard Howard

ISBN 10: 0809013800 / ISBN 13: 9780809013807

Published by Hill & Wang, USA, 1975

About this Item

Paperback. 21x13cm. x+67 pages. Flat spine. Front cover has a top corner crease. Clean & tight book. Inside front cover has a written name. No other inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref ZX-crw.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pleasure of the Text
• Publisher: Hill & Wang, USA
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809013800
• ISBN 13: 9780809013807
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: English Edition
• Printing: 7th impression
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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

About the Author

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.