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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 constitu...te "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 HowardDetailed info »« Brief info
| Publisher: | Hill & Wang |
| Publication Date: | 1/31/1975 |
| ISBN: | 9780374521608 |
| Ean: | 0374521603 |
| Paperback: | 80 pages |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Info: | 5.34 x 0.25 x 8.30 inches, (0.22 lbs) |
| Categories: | Semiotics & Theory |
| LC Subjects: | Literature - Aesthetics |
| Dewey: | 801.93 |
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