The Pleasure of the Text

BARTHES, Roland (translated by Richard Miller) Stephen Trombley (Association Copy)

ISBN 10: 0224011871 / ISBN 13: 9780224011877

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1976

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Tall 8vo. indark blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 67pp. This copy previously belonged to Stephen Trombley (author, filmmaker and musician) and has his neat ink signature on the front blank fly-leaf . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (faint hint of sunning to cover edge tips, hint of tanning to leaves) in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] . __To see more of our Philosophy and related subjects books type DbbPHIL in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pleasure of the Text
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224011871
• ISBN 13: 9780224011877
• Binding: HARDCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: FINE
• Dust Jacket Condition: AS NEW

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Synopsis

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

Review

"Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure." --Susan Sontag
Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure. "Susan Sontag""

"Barthes repeatedly compared teaching to play, reading to eros, writing to seduction. His voice became more and more personal, more full of grain, as he called it; his intellectual art more openly a performance, like that of the other great anti-systematizers . . . All of Barthes work is an exploration the histrionic or ludic; in many ingenious modes, a plea for savor, for a festive (rather than dogmatic or credulous) relation to ideas. For Barthes, the point is to make us bold, agile, subtle, intelligent, detached. And to give pleasure." --Susan Sontag