The Pleasure of the Text

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 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 Free Read [ The Pleasure of the Text ] author [ Roland Barthes ] – kino-fada.fr Read as poetry it s beautiful that s where the four stars come from As philosophy it s vague and blemished As literary theory it s highly questionable I d need a quick refresher to getdetailed It s been over five years since I read it I just hesitantly raised it from a three star rating to a four The operative word there being hesitantly.In a fairly recent interview, John Searle a contemporary and now elder philosopher makes a great couple of points about academic writing in gene Read as poetry it s beautiful that s where the four stars come from As philosophy it s vague and blemished As literary theory it s highly questionable I d need a quick refresher to getdetailed It s been over five years since I read it I just hesitantly raised it from a three star rating...When Sigmund Reads I definitely have to re read this essay in French besides wondering all along how some sentence had been formulated originally I had the strange feeling that some point was missed in translation and not at all because it is a bad translation, far from it, but because the study juggles with many a French language subtlety.That being said, I would like to emphasize ...The Pleasure of the Text is a short, baffling, deeply passionate book about the pleasures of reading and writing Barthes writing is unusually thick with allusion and ambiguity, often like a Zen koan Usually this is a most tiresome comparison, but it makes sense here Barthes talks about style, voice, meaning and the difference between what he calls pleasure and bliss , where bliss is the ideal of a text, and he compares the finding of bliss to watching a striptease, except that we get t The Pleasure of the Text is a short, baffling, deeply passionate book about the pleasures of reading and writing Barthes writing is unusually thick with allusion and ambiguity, often like a Zen koan Usually this is a most tiresome comparison, but it makes sense here Barthes talks about style, voice, meaning and the difference between what he calls pleasure and bliss , where bliss is the ideal of a text, and he compares the finding of bliss to watching a striptease, except that we..... , ,, ,, ,, , , ,, ,, ,, ,, , , ,, , , , , , , ,, , , ,, , , , , , , , ,,,, , , ,, , , , , , 2014Birdman Finding forster2014Birdman Finding forster

• English
• 08 April 2018
Roland Barthes
• Paperback
• 67 pages
• 0374521603
• Roland Barthes
• The Pleasure of the Text