The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text is a book by Roland Barthes. Barthes divides the effects of texts into two: pleasure and bliss.
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The pleasure of the text corresponds to the readerly text, which does not challenge the reader's subject position.
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The blissful text provides Jouissance (bliss, orgasm, explosion of codes) which allows the reader to break out of his/her subject position. This type of text corresponds to the "writerly" text.
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The "readerly" and the "writerly" texts are identified and explained in Barthes's S/Z: An Essay (ISBN 0374521670).
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