Lisible

Lisible is a word from the French for 'legible' used to denote a text that requires no true participation from its audience. It was first coined by the French literary critic Roland Barthes in his book S/Z and expanded from his essay the "Death of the Author". Barthes contrasts texte lisible, denoting a closed work, with texte scriptible, a text open to interpretation. In Barthes's opinion, lisible works provide no challenge to the reader's preconceived notions and thus are inferior to scriptible works, exemplified by modernist literature.^[1][2] Barthes contends that lisible works still emphasize the importance of the author, whereas for scriptible texts "the reader is the very space in which are inscribed, without any being lost, all the citations a writing consists of; the unity of a text is not in its origin, it is in its destination."^[3]

References

1. Baldick, Chris (2015). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Chris Baldick (Fourth ed.). Oxford: Oxford University. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-19-178323-4. OCLC 915617546.
2. "readerly and writerly | literature | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
3. Barthes, Roland (1967). "The Death of the Author". Manteia. no. 5. Archived from the original on 19 April 2020. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)