elaby | BWAH Criticism

Why do literary critics insist on using such ridiculously convoluted language? If I see one more -ism stuck onto the end of an unassuming adjective such as "functional", I'm going to SCREAM.

And those "-ive"s. Let me give you a small example.

Definition of normative from OED:

That which constitutes or serves as a norm or standard.

Definition of normal from OED:

Constituting or conforming to a type or standard.

You know, pretentious literary-critic-lady, you could just use "normal"... and then you wouldn't sound like a pedantic PRAT.

Yay, alliterative insults.

I could so go on about this article I've been reading, between the fact that I'd really love to see how somebody in 100 years reads the influence of god-only-knows-what-current-theme into my last year's piece of crap Nano, the references to the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and the Monster being homoerotic (!!!), and the discussion of Wide Sargasso Sea (written from Bertha Mason's POV and renames her) which I am highly skeptical of but must admit I haven't read (and would love to know what Bronte would think about it)... but I'm going to go listen to music before Grammar class.

Maybe I'll go on later.