1. Readerly and Writerly Text
Roland Barthes
Readerly and Writerly Text

2. Readerly Text
A text that makes no requirement of the reader to "write" or "produce" their own meanings. The reader may passively locate "ready-made" meaning.
Barthes writes that these sorts of texts are "controlled by the principle of non-contradiction" that is, they do not disturb the "common sense," or "Doxa," of the surrounding culture.
The "readerly texts," moreover, "are products [that] make up the enormous mass of our literature“.
Within this category, there is a spectrum of "replete literature," which comprises "any classic (readerly) texts" that work "like a cupboard where meanings are shelved, stacked, [and] safeguarded"

3. Writerly Text
A text that aspires to the proper goal of literature and criticism: "... to make the reader no longer a consumer but a producer of the text".
Writerly texts and ways of reading constitute, in short, an active rather than passive way of interacting with a culture and its texts.
A culture and its texts, Barthes writes, should never be accepted in their given forms and traditions.

4. Writerly Text
Thus reading becomes for Barthes “not a parasitical act, the reactive complement of a writing”, but rather a “form of work” .

5. Author and Scriptor Author
Author and scriptor are terms Barthes uses to describe different ways of thinking about the creators of texts. "The author" is our traditional concept of the lone genius creating a work of literature or other piece of writing by the powers of his/her original imagination. For Barthes, such a figure is no longer viable.
In place of the author, the modern world presents us with a figure Barthes calls the “scriptor,” whose only power is to combine pre- existing texts in new ways.

6. Author and Scriptor
Barthes believes that all writing draws on previous texts, norms, and conventions, and that these are the things to which we must turn to understand a text.
As a way of asserting the relative unimportance of the writer’s biography compared to these textual and generic conventions, Barthes says that the scriptor has no past, but is born with the text.

7. Author and Scriptor
He also argues that, in the absence of the idea of an "author-God" to control the meaning of a work, interpretive horizons are opened up considerably for the active reader. As Barthes puts it, "the death of the author is the birth of the reader."