readerly
- adjective
- /ˈriːdərli/
- Literature
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legible
- For Barthes, the readerly text is one that may be taken at face value, as one whose meaning is wholly syntagmatic, that is, located on the surface, and so requires no involvement by the reader; the reader is a passive consumer of such a text.
- readerly text
Examples
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Iorgulescu acknowledges this truth: the contact with Caragiaie is more than a "readerly" experience; it is a "life experience" (Iorgulescu 11).
Academic text (1995) -
More than fawning admiration, these early devotional lines betray the presence of a readerly class system that supersedes any Brandesian public relations campaign.
Academic text (2000) -
Here, Barthes distinguishes between what he calls readerly texts and writerly texts.
Academic text (2001) -
The readerly machinations of Brandes's letters presume a desirous author capable of winning a reader, if not a critic.
Academic text (2000) -
Moving from Nietzsche to other "greats," Brandes's writing divulges both a readerly desire and the impossibility of the transformation from critic to author.
Academic text (2000) -
In the context of the debate between literary theory and literary criticism, the readerly text would coincide with traditional literary criticism, while the writerly text would coincide with literary theory.
Academic text (2001) -
However, underneath the manifesto offered as a "readerly" text, there is also a "writerly" text (Barthes, S/Z 10), in which a subtle process of subversion takes place.
Academic text (1998) -
In this respect, the barrister's reliance on a doxa of common sense, socially acceptable forms of behavior, and, above all, traditional relations of cause and effect mirrors readerly acceptance of naturalized devices of validation.
Academic text (2009) -
While tropicalismo, operating within the culture industry apparatus, produces a readerly text that necessarily remains in the logic of the commodity, estetica da fome, tangentially positioned with respect to the culture industry, produces a writerly text unable to reach the mass consumer.
Academic text (1996) -
A good novel is often considered readerly if it is enjoyable without requiring deep analysis.
Synonyms
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Easy to see and understand because the letters are clear
Antonyms
How Readable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Readerly comes from reader + -ly, where -ly means 'like' or 'in the manner of' (think of friendly). A helpful way to remember this sense is that a readerly text is 'for the reader'—it gives clear, familiar meaning and lets you follow the story without having to work hard.