The pleasure of the text
By: Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Miller ; with a note on the text by Richard Howard.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
Work titles: Le plaisir du texte.
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.
Notes: English translation of the French text Le plaisir du texte.