MitchellSteele

So I'm reading Iser and his idea of the contemporary and ideal reader when I have to stop because this ideal reader is sounding a lot like authorial intent to me. So I look at the heading in Keesey and see in big letters that were talking about the audience not the author. Well, I go on and keep reading this theory and can't get this notion out of my head that he is talking about author intent again.
An ideal reader would have to have an identical code to that of the author; (Keesey 142)
Now I know that he goes on to explain how the ideal reader isn't the authors intentions when he is writing, but the ideal reader is this fake reader who is what the author would be if the author turned into the audience and read his own writing(s). Really? Now were dealing in the realm of the imagination. I can not buy this fake/ideal reader theory. I don't see how we can blend into or out of this realm. Then the fact that this ideal reader wouldn't be the authors intent, I know it's how the author is reading it, but seriously how much different is that-unless the author didn't do any rewrites and he just got published whatever he was writing on and next thing he knows is he gets a copy of his work and wham, it's not at all what he had intended to have written, then is that an ideal reader. Or if there is an editing problem and the author again is reading something he did not intend on writing-would that be an ideal reader. Please someone tell me what this ideal reader is. Because I am not buying Iser's concept of this ideal reader at all.