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Intimate exploration of textual joy and interpretation.

If you're intrigued by the intimate relationship between a reader and a text, "Pleasure of the Text" might feel like it was written just for you. Roland Barthes dives deep into the idea that reading is an act of personal fulfillment, where each sentence can be a sensual experience. It's a short read that welcomes re-visitation, offering fresh insights with every encounter. It's particularly appealing if you love contemplating how words can dance and play with our imagination.

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Pleasure of the Text

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ISBN: 9780809013807
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Date of Publication: 1987-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Creative Nonfiction, Philosophy
Related Topics: Essays, Theory
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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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Intimate exploration of textual joy and interpretation.

If you're intrigued by the intimate relationship between a reader and a text, "Pleasure of the Text" might feel like it was written just for you. Roland Barthes dives deep into the idea that reading is an act of personal fulfillment, where each sentence can be a sensual experience. It's a short read that welcomes re-visitation, offering fresh insights with every encounter. It's particularly appealing if you love contemplating how words can dance and play with our imagination.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.