The pleasure of the text / Roland Barthes ; translated by Richard Miller ; with a note on the text by Richard Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barthes, Roland.

Standardized Title:

Plaisir du texte. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Literature--Aesthetics.

Literature.

Physical Description:

x, 67 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Noonday Press : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

Summary:

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:

Translation of: Le plaisir du texte.

ISBN:

0374521603

OCLC:

18712025