Western criticism cannot assimilate devotional reading practices that ingest rather than analyze.

Evidence

Michael Warner, drawing a distinction between critical reading, which relies on the notion of subject/object distance, and what he terms “uncritical reading”—that rapt, devotional mode of reading that aims to ingest rather than to analyze—notes that the Western tradition is comfortable with “the normative ideals of our own critical activity” but struggles to assimilate reading practices “that cultivate piety.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 492

Categorization

• DEFINE: Warner’s critical vs uncritical reading distinction is a candidate tool for distinguishing reading modes in the novels.