As a reaction to this he wrote The Pleasure of the Text ( 1975 ), a study that focused on a subject matter he felt was equally outside of the realm of both conservative society and militant leftist thinking: hedonism.

In his 1973 literary theory book The Pleasure of the Text, Barthes divides the effects of texts into two: plaisir ( translated as " pleasure ") and jouissance.

This irony, along with black humor and the general concept of " play " ( related to Derrida's concept or the ideas advocated by Roland Barthes in The Pleasure of the Text ) are among the most recognizable aspects of postmodernism.

The Pleasure of the Text, New York: Hill and Wang.

* Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure, Forke's translation, Internet Sacred Text Archive

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

The incumbent will generally serve for at least five years, though this is only a developed convention, and the governor still technically acts at Her Majesty's pleasure ( or the Royal Pleasure ).

His latest play to receive wide acclaim is For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again, a funny and nostalgic play, centered on the memories of his mother.

But the statements do not give the meaning of the term " yellow ", and ( Moore argues ) to confuse them with a definition of " yellow " would be to commit the same fallacy that is committed when " Pleasure is good " is confused with a definition of " good ".

James is featured in two of Magritte's works, Le Principe du Plaisir ( The Pleasure Principle ) and La Reproduction Interdite, a painting also known as Not to be Reproduced.

Wallace & Gromit: The Thrill-O-Matic is due to open at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in 2013.

* Pleasure Beach Blackpool, a popular English theme park ( Britain's Biggest Tourist Attraction ), is founded by Alderman William George Bean.

The incumbent will generally serve for at least five years, though this is only a developed convention, and the governor general still technically acts at Her Majesty's pleasure ( or the Royal Pleasure ).

The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

In 1975, she starred in the somewhat autobiographical My Pleasure is My Business.

Pleasure serves as a differentiating factor between Cleopatra and Antony, between Egypt and Rome, and can be read as the fatal flaw of the heroes if Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy.

The result is one of the best known and most striking krewes of Mardi Gras, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club.

Another likely explanation is that the first Russian railway, constructed in 1837, ran from Saint Petersburg via Tsarskoye Selo to Pavlovsk Palace, where extensive Pleasure Gardens had earlier been established.

Pleasure Ridge Park is a former census-designated place in southwest Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

Pleasure Ridge Park is now a neighborhood within the city limits of Louisville.

What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge.

This community is served by the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Protection District.

The Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Protection District is one of eighteen volunteer and combination departments that make up the Jefferson County Fire Service.

Pleasure Ridge Park High School is located in the area.

Pleasure Ridge Park is located at.

Although growth in Pleasure Ridge Park is fairly slow, the area has seen an increase in small-scale retail in the last few years.

St. Dennis is to the west, and Pleasure Ridge Park is to the south.

In 1953 he had a role as a bureaucrat in the short film The Pleasure Garden, which won the Prix de Fantasie Poetique at the Cannes Film Festival in 1954.

The Pleasure Garden is a short film written and directed by James Broughton in 1953.

* The Pleasure Garden ( 1953 film ), a short film written and directed by James Broughton

* " The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius " ( 1965, short story, retroactively rewritten as a Von Bek )

The first trailer shown in a U. S. film theater was in November 1913, when Nils Granlund, the advertising manager for the Marcus Loew theater chain, produced a short promotional film for the musical The Pleasure Seekers, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.

The short, wide adjoining Pleasure Pier to the south, a. k. a. Newcomb Pier, was built in 1916 by Charles I. D. Looff and his son Arthur, amusement park pioneers.

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a short 38 minute film by Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954.

Some services, especially in busy periods such as during Blackpool Illuminations or on bank holidays, start or terminate short at Cleveleys, Red Bank Road in Bispham, or the Pleasure Beach.

: In short, Poems make some Military Act, or Politick Conduct, their Theme, and only descant upon Love at Pleasure ; whereas Romances, on the contrary, have Love for their Principal Subject, and don't concern themselves in War or Politicks, but by Accident.

In the 1740s Pleasure Field for a short while was turned into a walking park with paths, lawn and flowers.

Refer to page 57 of Timothy Brook's book The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China.

Chandler's essay rejects this model, declaring that " It is the ladies and gentlemen of what Mr. Howard Haycraft ( in his book Murder for Pleasure ) calls the Golden Age of detective fiction that really get me down.

2010 sees the publication of Dressing For Pleasure, The Best Of AtomAge, a comprehensive hardback book celebrating the imagery and life of this highly influential magazine and company.

* Dressing For Pleasure, the book of Atomage imagery, history and readers letters

Edited and introduced by Frederick Carter, the book once more dealt with Spare's mystical ideas, continuing many of the themes explored in The Book of Pleasure.

Nando's has published a book about Peri-Peri called Pain and Pleasure – Peri-Peri the contrasts and contradictions of the African Bird's Eye Chilli.

Returning to the United States in 1953, he set about working on several new projects, including the films Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ), Scorpio Rising ( 1964 ), Kustom Kar Kommandos ( 1965 ), and the gossip book Hollywood Babylon ( 1965 ).

The book in question in this case was Fanny Hill ( or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749 ) by John Cleland and the Court held in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that, while it may fit the first two criteria ( it appealed to prurient interest and was patently offensive ), it could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value.

2010 sees the publication of the first ever book about Sutcliffe and AtomAge-Dressing For Pleasure, a history of AtomAge is published by Fuel and edited by Jonny Trunk.

* Dressing For Pleasure, the book of Atomage imagery, history and readers letters

The early tragedies of Appius and Virginia, and Tancred and Gismund were taken from The Palace of Pleasure ; and among better-known plays derived from the book are the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Edward III, All's Well That Ends Well ( from Giletta of Narbonne ), Beaumont and Fletcher's Triumph of Death, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and James Shirley's Love's Cruelty.

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims ' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his " Great Pleasure Excursion " on board the chartered vessel Quaker City ( formerly ) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.

Pleasure Island is thought to be named for ' Pleasure Island ' from the book The Adventures of Pinocchio, upon which Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio is based.

* Wisdom's Delight in Marriage (" Conjugial ") Love: Followed by Insanity ’ s Pleasure in Promiscuous Love ( Swedenborg Society 1953 ) Swedenborg's book on the spiritual relationships between the sexes, both ideal and disorderly

Her first book, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club ( University of Chicago Press 1994 ), examines the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining white-collar, male workers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs.