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
Info
ISBN: 9780374521608
Published Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Page Count: 67
Size: 6.60" l x 4.22" w x 0.33" h
Category
Literary Criticism
Subject
Semiotics & Theory