James Kincaid on Coherent Readers and Incoherent Texts (The Limits of Pluralism 4)
Adventures Among Ideas by David Dennen
Episode notes
I discuss James Kincaid's view, in "Coherent Readers, Incoherent Texts" (1977), that the text is an incoherent set of patterns that the reader tries (and fails) to unify through the activity of reading.
Keywords
literary criticismliterary theoryjames kincaidmorse peckham