Publication

1989 - Noonday Press, New York, United States

Language

English

Word Count

16,750 words, Guess

Page Count

67 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number75004904
  • LibraryThing12864
  • Goodreads765227

Classifications

  • LCCPN45.B2813 1980
  • LCCPN45 .B2813 1975

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.

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Other Editions

  • The pleasure of the textNoonday Press1989-01-01

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