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Pleasure of the Text
Pleasure of the Text | Roland Barthes
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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
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monalyisha
Pleasure of the Text | Roland Barthes
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Happy #NationalBookLoversDay! 📚💖

rabbitprincess I love the mask! 🐰 4y
monalyisha Thanks, @rabbitprincess! I got it from Brittany Lange Paints. You can find her on Etsy & Instagram! I have two of the exact same mask & it‘s the only one I feel comfortable wearing. It stays where you put it. 🙌🏻 4y
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Carissa-Green-Reads
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. . . the book creates the meaning, the meaning creates life.

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monalyisha
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Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! 🎈

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monalyisha
Pleasure of the Text | Roland Barthes
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It‘s Roland Barthes‘ birthday today!

I‘m overwhelmingly grateful to @batsy for bringing this to my attention because without her post, I wouldn‘t have spent my morning basking in the bliss of remembering.

Barthes‘ “The Pleasure of the Text” was my absolute favorite critical read in college. When I went to my bookshelf & pulled it down, I fell in love all over again. I‘ll post a few of my favorite quotes throughout the day to celebrate. 🎉

batsy A lovely idea! I read him for classes as well and got the books out of the library. I need to start building my own little Barthes shelf 🙂 7y
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