James Kincaid on Coherent Readers and Incoherent Texts (The Limits of Pluralism 4)
Adventures Among Ideas by David Dennen
E16
Feb 11, 2022
19:42
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 criticism
literary theory
james kincaid
morse peckham