The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, ISBN-13: 978-0224011877

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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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