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This chapter draws on Roland Barthes’s The Pleasure of the Text and Laura Marks’s haptic visuality to consider repetition’s forceful promise of pleasure. Using two scenes from Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard: While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók’s Duke’s Bluebeard Castle (1977), I narrate my experience as a viewer. I propose that the role of the viewer is to perform repetition and its content, to come closer to repetition, to become part of it. An active engagement with repetition gives rise to difficult pleasures, or, borrowing Barthes’s term, certain types of jouissance .
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Kartsaki, E. (2017). After Barthes . In: Repetition in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43054-0_3
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