Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Barthes
Author First Name:
Roland
Pages:
80
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reissue
ISBN 10:
0374521603
ISBN 13:
9780374521608
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Hill and Wang
Date Published:
1/1/1975
Genre:
Writing
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
