num_pages: 67
description: 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
language: English
title: The Pleasure of the Text
titlecomplete: The Pleasure of the Text
genres: Theory, Writing, France, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Art, Criticism, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 5255
publisher: Hill and Wang