{"product_id":"the-pleasure-of-the-text-0374521603","title":"The Pleasure of the Text","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0374521603\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Barthes, Roland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51536412573984,"sku":"NEW0374521603","price":14.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71QJ3LygZnL.jpg?v=1777414286","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-pleasure-of-the-text-0374521603","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}