Marybeth: Well, I can't think of an online link to a review to illustrate my gripe. But, anything that gets into po-biz speak, or uses the term po-biz, is in the category. I can find a LOT of examples in art criticism, which I read more regularly, of manufactured critical language and criteria. Generally, my problem is with anthing that focuses me more on the reviewer or on his or her scholarship or on his or her faction's manifesto than on the work at hand. Certainly anything with esoteric critical language that excludes the average educated reader is, like, a real turn-off.
Thanks for not asking me the names of the people who didn't thank me lavishly for the wonderful reviews I've written. ~,:^)
Last edited by Rick Mullin; 08-19-2011 at 10:15 AM.
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