Higgins- Readerly Textes vs. Writerly Texts(9/16)

            From our reading we have witnessed Barthes theory of how the two texts; Readerly Texts and Writerly texts can be percieved to be pleasurable. The concept is that one style implies more of an open ended sense to the reader throughout the novel while the other style emits a concrete plot that leaves very little room for interpretation. Writerly as well as Readerly are both designed to describe classical texts, however when discussing the writerly version one can get the sense of the signifiers/ ideological signs in the actual text itself. Another thing we contemplated with in class was how writerly texts also deal more with mettanarative examples in the pieces while readerly text has very little of that. To read anything and try to dissect it, requires atleast somewhat of knowledge on the topic otherwise where would the person's line be drawn when it comes to labeling the piece between the two text styles. In conclusion, some examples of more readerly pieces would be one that may have a plain plot idea, where the author is more stating the fact and leaves the reader without an imageinary feeling when finished. The Bible is a good example of writerly for it leaves the room for a fair amount of interpretation. Filling in the gaps, is basically the whole premise that seperates the two styles.