English Explanatory Dictionary

scriptor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.

Word forms

scriptor scriptors

Etymology

From Latin scrīptor, to avoid the etymological link between author and authority.

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