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	The Pleasure of the Text - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The pleasure of the text corresponds to the readerly text, which does not challenge the reader's subject position.
		The "readerly" and the "writerly" texts are identified and explained in Barthes's S/Z: An Essay (ISBN 0374521670).
		As such, although one may experience pleasure in the readerly text, it is when one sees the text from the writerly point of view that the experience is blissful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Pleasure_of_the_Text (314 words)

	Sublime Repetitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Pleasure of the Text is the projected, anticipatory rhetoric of the 'rapture,' the ecstasy of the self (Le plaisir, 33; Pleasure, 19).
		Thus the 'text of bliss' is 'the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language' (Le plaisir, 24–25; Pleasure, 14).
		With the rupture of the doxa, the doxical self and the copula, Barthes intimates a rhetoric of the sublimity of the text signalled by the withdrawal of presence; language signifies as the non-representational trace of the withdrawal of the phenomena.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/712/712_radloff.html (8836 words)

	Pleasure
		Pleasure, although it sometimes seems to share a thought's content, is not easily assimilated to mere thought and resists any analysis in terms of belief or judgment, despite the claims of ancient Stoics (Long and Sedley 1987, §65, B, C and D) and their followers (opposed by Hamlyn 1978; Sorabji 2000; Helm 2000, ch.
		Pleasure and theories involving it came to be increasingly disregarded by philosophers nevertheless, despite defenses of aspects of historical hedonism by Richard Brandt (1979, 1982, 1993) and Irwin Goldstein (1980, 1985, 1989) and neuroscientific discoveries widely taken to suggest that pleasure might be a motivatonally powerful isolable experience, much as the simple picture had supposed.
		Pleasure could be accorded a place in the best life attainable for beings like ourselves, imperfect enough to have recurrent needs but sometimes aware of their however partial and temporary satisfaction.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pleasure (16488 words)

	PEDABLOGUE - Poetry and The Pleasure of the Text
		PEDABLOGUE - Poetry and The Pleasure of the Text
		As an English teacher, it's easy to forget about the pleasure of the text -- in fact, a great deal of the difficulties in teaching literature or creative writing is getting students to see that there's much more to a story than the familiar emotional responses we're trained to have by popular culture.
		Analysis, interpretation, literary research and explication all have their own pleasures, of course, but these are intellectual rewards which often come -- students are quick to say -- at the price of "enjoying" stories, poems, etc. The students would prefer to be blissfully entertained.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MikeArnzen/005263.html (868 words)

	Reader Online, Issue 20: McCormick
		While the text of pleasure "contents, fills, [and] grants euphoria" to the reader because it conforms to cultural practices with which the reader is familiar, the text of bliss "unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, [and] memories" (PT 14).
		To produce a text that continually creates a tension between pleasure and bliss is to combine mastery and mystery, hedonism and loss, comfort and frustration, and for some readers, but not all, to insure excitement and challenge, and an infinite desire to reread.
		While readers experiencing negative pleasure are irritated by textual incongruities and wait patiently for the text to resolve itself, readers experiencing doubly perverse pleasure actively and self-consciously plunge into the text, reveling both in their own ingenuity at mastering the text and the text's ingenuity at refusing to be mastered.
	www.hu.mtu.edu /reader/online/20/mcc20.html (6747 words)

	Afterword: The Rebirth of the Author, Marshall Soules, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A text is made of multiple writings, drawn from many cultures and entering into mutual relations of dialogue, parody, contestation, but there is one place where this multiplicity is focused and that place is the reader, not, as was hitherto said, the author.
		For Barthes, the readerly text is the old paradigm in which writers imagined themselves in control - more or less - of their texts, and thus met the expectations of traditional readers.
		The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas I do.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/eng315/textbook/rebirth.htm (823 words)

	The Pleasure of the Text: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Pleasure of the Text is a book by Roland Barthes Roland Barthes quick summary:
		Barthes divides the effects of texts into two: pleasure and bliss.
		The pleasure of the text corresponds to the readerly text, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_pleasure_of_the_text.htm (138 words)

	Pleasure and Self-Loss in Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		If we avoid a condition of educational segregation, in which readers read only the texts to which their multiple subject positions give them access and a claim, all other texts become—not altogether inappropriately—a ground of intellectual and emotional warfare, where the designs of alien subjects on the subjectivity of the reader must be disputed.
		As The Pleasure of the Text continues it discloses some reservations about pleasure (as opposed to the bliss or jouissance of the less compliant reader), but this initial being whom Barthes evokes is, even though gendered male, intensely subversive: not by embracing a position of resistance but by refusing to embrace any at all.
		Of course the kind of alert receptiveness, of intense absorption in the text, that figures as “passive” in an antithesis between readerly and writerly relations to the text is anything but inert, and it may be a high and difficult achievement of literary culture, even of spiritual discipline.
	www.adfl.org /ade/bulletin/N099/099008.htm (2909 words)

	Plain and Encoded Electronic Texts: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Formally, SGML texts are application- and platform-independent--an SGML tag set supports, at least in principle and often in practice, sophisticated screen display and navigation, analytical functions, indexing, formatting for printing; and when you can't process the text the way you want in one SGML-conformant software application, you can use another.
		When dealing with a text which has been converted from some other medium (probably print, possibly an MS), concerns for quality may be divided into two categories: the quality of the transcription, and the kind and quality of the encoding.
		Sometimes a text comes with documentation, which is in itself a positive indicator that its creator(s) have taken the work seriously; it may also relate how carefully the transcription was created and proofed.
	www.ceth.rutgers.edu /intromat/E-TEXTS.htm (3423 words)

	Winnett, "Coming Unstrung" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Considering the last decade's preoccupations with sexual difference and the pleasure of the text, it is surprising that theories concerned with the relation between narrative and pleasure have largely neglected to raise the issue of the difference between women's and men's reading pleasures.
		Indeed, the same analytic paradigms that give us professional access to texts have already determined the terms in which we accede to, comply with, or resist the coercions of a cultural program for pleasure that is not interested in -- and whose interests may be threatened by -- the difference of women's pleasure.
		From the way that both Brooks and Scholes implicate the scenario of male pleasure in the processes that determine narrative sequence as well as the narrative's aesthetic, erotic, and ethical yield, it would seem that the pleasure of the text depends on the gratification of the reader's erotic investment.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/winnett.html (7230 words)

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		The important thing is to equalize the field of pleasure, to abolish the false opposition of practical life and contemplative life.
		The pleasure of the text is just that: claim lodged against the separation of the text; for what the text says, through the particularity of its name, is the ubiquity of pleasure, the atopia of bliss.
		Notion of a book (of a text) in which is braided, woven, in the most personal way, the relation of every kind of bliss: those of “life” and those of the text, in which reading and the risks of real life are subject to the same anamnesis.
	www.slimcoincidence.com /blog/archives/000206.html (526 words)

	EPICUREAN PLEASURE AND DESIRE
		(Epicurus (1994) text 4) With this in mind, we are ready to move on to the arguments for why the only thing we desire for its own sake is pleasure, and why it is best to keep our desires simple.
		Since it is natural for us to desire pleasure, it is best to keep our desires and wants to a minimum in order to make it easier to achieve satisfaction.
		This is what makes static pleasures, pleasures that occur after a want or desire has been satisfied, so pleasurable.
	cda.mrs.umn.edu /~okeefets/pleasure-paper.html (2347 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Le Plaisir du texte [The Pleasure of the Text]
		Le Plaisir du texte [The Pleasure of the Text]
		And yet, in Le Plaisir du texte, that very assertion of the death of the author as institution is immediately followed by Barthes’s admission that, nonetheless, he needs the author: “[I]n the text, in a way, I desire the author: I need his figure […] as he needs mine” (27).
		Perhaps the most useful contribution of this text to literary theory in general lies in its refusal of the norms of both radical and conservative views of literature (my use of political terms here is deliberate), and in its belief in, and incarnation of, apparently “contradictory” theoretical attitudes towards the act of reading.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10348 (612 words)

	The Pleasure of Which Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Translated into English in 1975, The Pleasure of the Text, through a series of fragmentary comments, sought to express the erotic aspect of the reading experience-which I am not going to talk about today-and became a significant marker of poststructuralist theory.
		The canon-the shared body of texts one used to have to know as a student and teach as a professor-has expaneded to include literary works that were once little known and little taught (for example, works by women and works by African American writers).
		Definitions of "literature" are also at stake in the canon debate, of course, since some of the works "admitted" to the "expanded" canon are judged by their detractors to be of dubious "literary merit"-that is, not to count as Literature (with a capital L) at all.
	www.ric.edu /fas/fas15aug/pleasureof.html (5675 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Pleasure of the Text: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"The Pleasure of the Text," by Roland Barthes, is a work of literary and cultural philosophy that actually transcends the genre.
		One of the key themes of "The Pleasure of the Text" is Barthes' attempt to define "pleasure" and "bliss," and to delineate the differences between the text of pleasure and the text of bliss.
		Among other topics Barthes considers the hierarchical nature and pleasure factor of the sentence, as well as the erotic potential of the word.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0374521603 (816 words)

	The Pleasures of Her Text
		No sooner has a word been said, somewhere, about the pleasure of the text, than two policemen are ready to jump on you: the political policeman and the psychoanalytical policeman; futility and/or guilt, pleasure is either ideal or vain, a class notion or an illusion.
		In the text as traditionally interpreted, as well as in their lives, the wives of David cede to male domination, and in ladylike fashion allow biblical literature to privilege male gender and to demystify their own.
		The text emphasizes Abigail’s importance as the wife with the goods, the flocks and herds, detailing the quantity of every delicious item of food and drink she brings to the outcast David.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1945&C=1780 (7853 words)

	Navigating Spaces: the Human Textual Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes evokes a distinct connection between the human and the textual body:
		We have several of them; the body of anatomists and physiologists, the one science sees or discusses: this is the text of grammarians, critics, commentators, philologists (the pheno-text).
		The pleasure of the text is irreducible to physiological need.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/lynn/pleasure.htm (486 words)

	Sample Text
		Post-Structuralist philosophy would lead one to believe that all texts are imbedded within a culture, that indeed they speak of the culture, from the culture and about the culture.
		A word hidden deep in a volume of the Oxford dictionary is suspended in the amniotic fluid of the language that surrounds it; it is given weight and gravity by the dense, de-facto heaviness of the book in which it has been found.
		If what Montrose says is true, then the text exists in a sort of protean form, oscillating between one "ism" and the next.
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~cgleber/FOB/writings/rosenberg_random.html (2214 words)

	Mazda 5: An Insightful New Dimension of Zoom-Zoom Pleasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To ensure usability and ease of accessibility, painstaking research was conducted that included attaching sensors to test subjects and running simulations of the human body’s actual movement when opening/closing the door.
		The development team also developed smart new audio and entertainment systems with functionality and versatility that heightens the pleasure of riding in the Mazda5.
		Additionally, clinical analysis of muscle movement when operating the gear shift lever led to the development of a centre panel design that positions the knob at an optimum angle that makes operation possible without bending one’s wrist.
	www.worldcarfans.com /news.cfm?newsid=2041124.001&page=4&lang=eng&mazda=1.html/country/jcf (654 words)

	Critical Theory: Roland Barthes
		Whereas in the classical age, language is a transparent vehicle that conveys a unified bourgeois consciousness, writing today bears witness to the absence of universals.
		Barthes also distinguishes in The Pleasure of the Text between the readerly and the writerly texts.
		Whereas the readerly text meets the reader's expectations and thus validates the status quo, the writerly text destabilizes the reader's expectations, thus forcing her into a subject position that challenges conventional subjectivity.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/critical/barthes.htm (340 words)

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		Specifically, one theorist argued that the “pleasure of the text,” was the denouement in the argument of “quality” in literature.
		Roland Barthes, a French theorist, asserted that since the idea of quality is ultimately subjective, the individual pleasure derived from reading is the ultimate scale for quality[1].
		Genre fiction and pleasure reading, which appeal to the senses (horror: fear, fantasy: excitement, romance: love), are dismissed under this model.
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~hma25/650finpap5.htm (262 words)

	SAGE Publications - Sexualities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Two decades later pleasure and danger continue to be central themes re-emerging at different times and places producing and policing the sexualities of women, men, girls and boys (from the global impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to local moral panics around the promotion of homosexuality in schools).
		Re-visiting the ways in which histories, expressions and experiences of contemporary (global and local) sexualities continue to shape and be shaped by discourses of pleasure and danger is the starting point for this international conference.
		We hope to spark up and support debates that examine the power of pleasure and danger as oppositional categories as well as the traces of pleasure in danger and danger in pleasure in sexuality research.
	www.sagepub.com /journal.aspx?pid=200 (515 words)

	sweet pleasure : plaisir sucré
		“Pleasure is a state…bliss…an action, and both of them, in our culture, are held to be unspeakable, beyond words.” Richard Howard in the forward to Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text
		Pleasure is the literal translation for the French word plaisir.
		I changed to Sweet Pleasure, an English translation, for practical reasons: English is my first language and is currently the dominant language on the web in North America, where I live.
	sweetpleasure.blogspot.com (2916 words)

	Text Only Sacred Pleasure
		Yet sexual violence is commonplace and the "war of the sexes" continues to perpetuate misunderstanding and pain.
		Boldly asserting that the war between the sexes in not inevitable, Eisler offers a passionate vision of a future when sex and spirituality are once again entwined and men and women face each other as equal partners.
		In order to accelerate what she calls the "pain to pleasure shift," Eisler outlines a blueprint for the future of partnership sexuality, spirituality, and a society where pleasure, not pain is the central theme of our sacred and secular imagery - and our lives.
	www.partnershipway.org /html/cpstextonly/textosubpages/cpstosacred.htm (449 words)

	English 401 Syllabus
		The Continued Pleasure of the Text: Barthes and Dickinson.
		Please describe the text(s)—provide for each text the author’s name, date of publication, your sense of the literary period and nationality in which the text was written, and also describe the text in terms of genre, general plot/poetic content/subject matter.
		The Pleasure of MLA style, language, and scholarly debate.
	userpages.wittenberg.edu /laskeland/401syl.html (512 words)

	In texts, through thoughts, with pleasure: Negation in Indian Philosophy (preprint of an entry in the MacMillan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In texts, through thoughts, with pleasure: Negation in Indian Philosophy (preprint of an entry in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		In the Vaiśeṣikasūtra (VS), a compilation of often elliptic mnemonic sentences that gradually grew as of the first two centuries CE, one finds disparate identifications of specific forms of absences and brief statements of how some of them are known.
		Further forms of absences, added in VS 9,8–11, were most likely inserted into the text at a later stage.
	www.birgitkellner.org /index.php?id=133 (2282 words)

	Announcing Subtext, A Fork Of .TEXT For Your Blogging Pleasure
		.TEXT is a popular (among.NET loving geeks), scalable, and feature rich blogging engine started by Scott Watermasysk and released as an open source project under a BSD license.
		.TEXT is dead as a BSD licensed open source project.
		Left by SimonT at 5/9/2005 1:17 AM I must say well done, Im glad someone has taken up this mantle to continue what was an excellent project.
	haacked.com /archive/2005/05/04/2953.aspx (1420 words)

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