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The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0224011877
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- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (January 1, 1976)
- Language: English
- 80 pages
- ISBN-10: 0224011871
- ISBN-13: 978-0224011877
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
Table of Contents:
Affirmation / Affirmation 3
Babel / Babel 3
Babil / Prattle 4
Bords / Edges 6
Brio / Brio 13
Clivage / Split 14
Communaute / Community 14
Corps / Body 16
Commentaire / Commentary 17
Derive / Drift 18
Dire / Expression 19
Droite / Right 22
Echange / Exchange 23
Ecoute / Hearing 24
Emotion / Emotion 25
Ennui / Boredom 25
Envers / Inside out 26
Exactitude / Exactitude 26
Fetiche / Fetish 27
Guerre / War 27
Imaginaires / Image-reservoirs 33
Inter-texte / Intertext 35
Isotrope / Isotrope 36
Langue / Tongue 37
Lecture / Reading 37
Mandarinat / Mandarinate
Moderne / Modern
Nihilisme / Nihilism
Nomination / Nomination
Obscurantisme / Obscurantism
Oedipe / Oedipus
Peur / Fear
Phrase / Sentence
Plaisir / Pleasure
Politique / Politics
Quotidienne / Daily
Recuperation / Recuperation
Representation / Representation
Resistances / Oppositions
Reve / Dream
Science / Science
Signifiance / Significance
Sujet / Subject
Theorie / Theory
Valeur / Value
Voix / Voice
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French cultural and literary critic, whose clever and lyrical writings on semiotics made structuralism one of the leading movements of the twentieth century. Barthes had a cult following and published seventeen books, including Camera Lucida, Mythologies, and A Lover’s Discourse.
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