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The Pleasure of the Text
Book Details
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism & Theory
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9780374521608
- ISBN-10
- 0374521603
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ISBN: 0374521603
Author: Barthes, Roland
Condition: Used
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
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