The Pleasure of the Text (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Pleasure of the Text Monday, August 3 2009.

• 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

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Pleasure of the Text Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Roland Barthes: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Pleasure of the Text Thursday, July 16 2009.

• THE PLEASURE OF THE TEXT: like Bacon's simulator, it can say: never apologize, never explain.