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writerly, a.|ˈraɪtəlɪ|
[f. writer + -ly1, after painterly.]
Appropriate to, characteristic or worthy of a professional writer or literary man; consciously literary.
1957Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Aug. p. xxxvii/2 Serious Canadian writers at present are firmly resolved to concentrate upon the writerly virtues. 1958Spectator 24 Jan. 114/1 A clever and writerly book. 1977M. Cohen Sensible Words i. 25 Dryden..sees his writerly obligations in new terms. 1982Listener 23/30 Dec. 56/3 James Saunders dissecting writerly old age and the onset of what appears to be terminal cynicism.
▸ After French scriptible (R. Barthes S/Z (1970) ii. 11). Literary Theory. Of a text: admitting of a range of possible interpretations; demanding the active engagement of the reader; = open adj. 27e. Usu. opposed to readerly adj. 2.
1974R. Miller tr. R. Barthes S/Z 5 The writerly text is ourselves writing, before the infinite play of the world (the world as function) is traversed, intersected, stopped, plasticized by some singular system..which reduces..the infinity of languages. 1981Contemp. Lit. 22 304 Writerly works, because they depend so much on the ‘play’ of language, seem, by their very nature,..to generate multiple meanings. 1986A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) iv. 108 The writerly text demands the reader's active cooperation. 2000P. Parrinder Learning from Other Worlds 40 Few if any science-fictional works can claim to be the ‘writerly’ texts celebrated in some post-structuralist theory. |