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Are you claiming that professional literary critics and theorists have no more expertise than you or me or the bloke down the pub. We have, after all, all read novels, so we are all equally qualified to think analytically about them, is presumably the thinking, (to stretch the meaning of the word), going on with this kind of argument.
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That's all on you, man. I'd never presume anything of the sort. But I do reserve the right to assume that there just may be a handful literary critics (and doctors and mechanics, too) out there who are full of shit up to their eyeballs. Stands to reason, right? Their background, education and expertise only guarantee that I'll
listen to their assessment... not kneel before it and accept it as gospel.