readerly

Examples

• All

• Just as "The Tale" shows characters engaged in atmospheric reading within the world of the story, so does Heart of Darkness use its metafictional structure to dramatize readerly attunement.

  Academic text (2018)

• As such, the article investigates how the novel, as a medium of intimacy, shares necessary know-how and invites readerly participation in this gay, mediated world.

  Academic text (2018)

• No readerly empathy, no storyteller's sophisticated analysis, no attempt to understand.

  Academic text (2000)

• An atmosphere of murderous complicity: Readerly Attunement.

  Academic text (2018)

• Though he has appealed to them on the "readerly" grounds of empathy and understanding, he doesn't want to take the chance of finding out whether that appeal has actually succeeded.

  Academic text (2000)

• Yet while surface reading tends to privilege the text itself in a more conventional sense, urging readers to "stay close to our objects of study" (15), reading atmospherically makes readerly responses integral to a text's meaning.

  Academic text (2018)

• In the case of, say, an author who employs an unreliable narrator, one important readerly activity is the rejection of the narrator's assumptions, knowledge, or values. (Many other activities will follow from this rejection, but those activities will vary from one narrative to the next.)

  Academic text (1994)

• In explaining the relation between narrative strategy and readerly activity, the rhetorical critic focuses on how an actual reader can recognize the signs of unreliability and infer the author's different assumptions, knowledge, or values.

  Academic text (1994)

• Interestingly, Jacobsen does not give the words to Fennimore's song; the most powerful words, again, go unvoiced to be nebulously constructed between authorial suggestion and readerly interpretation.

  Academic text (1999)

• The author's use of vivid imagery creates a readerly experience that captivates the audience's imagination.

Synonyms

R

readable

vsreaderly

26 2.0

Easy to see and understand because the letters are clear

invites engagement and interpretation rather than mere clarity or legibility

W

writerly

vsreaderly

• Literature

3 7.7

A literary style that makes readers notice the language and form

focuses on encouraging reading and interpretation rather than showing authorial style

Antonyms

D

dull

182 1.3

Not interesting or lively

U

uninspiring

7 3.5

Not interesting or exciting

U

uninviting

2 4.6

Not pleasant or welcoming and likely to keep people away

How Interpretive

open-ended

27 4.9

readerly

• Jargon

8.5

suggestive

18 5.2

ambiguous

68 6.3

explicit

142 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology