Brandon Walker

Jan. 24, 2018

ENG 101

Roland Barthes: The Pleasure of The Text Notes

Difficulty in reading: 4

Difficulty in extracting ideas: 4

Commonalities within art I enjoy:

• Emotionally evocative whether it be negative or positive
• occasionally humorous
• Relatability
• Charisma
• Unexpectedness.

"The text is a fetish object, and this fetish desires me"