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The Pleasure of the Text

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by Roland Barthes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roland Barthes, Richard Miller (Translator)Publish date:1975-01-01Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780374521608ISBN-10:374521603UPC:9780374521608Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.30 x 5.34 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC2PC8S8Q2

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:EnglishPublisher:Hill & WangISBN-13:9780374521608ISBN-10:374521603UPC:9780374521608Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & TheorySize:8.30 x 5.34 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC2PC8S8Q2

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.


Publisher: Hill & Wang

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Roland Barthes, Richard Miller (Translator)

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Roland Barthes

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