Jack of All Trades (ch10)

The important thing you have to know about Cultural Poetics is basically you have to know everything. In order to look at a text one must be able to understand the historical context, the author's view point and the social context of a work. In order to be a good Cultural Poet you need to pretty much know a little bit about all of the humanities. The importance of society and how it affects both the authors and the readers is a large part of it. You also need to know about politics of the time and the historical eras.
I like the idea of the anthropology approach, although I am sure it is harder to follow than it sounds. It is true though that every critic puts their own spin or ideals into the texts they read, and so that should be removed in order to have a non bias opinion. This would be hard because when we put ourselves into the text it is then that we can truly connect with the work. I think it would be hard to critic something that I am not connected to.
When reading this chapter a lot of it sounded like the Marxist approach to criticism, especially the importance of society. The thing I've learned about all of these chapters is the links between all of them. Although they may have different major points they highlight there are many parts that are borrowed and used from each other.