The 'technical critique' tricks felski is advocating against are also bad anthropology -- if literary critics deny the experience of the reader and deny an anal

The 'technical critique' tricks felski is advocating against are also bad anthropology -- if literary critics deny the experience of the reader and deny an analysis of the writer's experience, background and techniques, we're not left with much. Anthropologists have 'Verstehen', a term which has gone through a lot of iterations but used to mean that you should be careful interpreting the meaning of a ritual from an alien culture. Critics' rejection of the inner life of readers and writers alienates them from the art they analyze.