[BOOK][B] The pleasure of the text
R Barthes - 1975 - books.google.com
R Barthes
1975•books.google.comWhat 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
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
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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