Butler on Spivak (was SZ)

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Sat Nov 20 22:48:04 PST 1999


On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Katha Pollitt wrote:


> writing. Butler's just a bad writer --verbose, turgid, jargonistic. She
> has no metaphors or images, no startling allusions, no witty examples,
> no slant use of quotation, no shrewd deployment of historical anecdote.

So she's a little wordy. Doesn't mean she doesn't have smart things to say or that her ideas are invalid, though. To paraphrase Mae West, when writers are good, they're good, but when they're bad, they're sometimes even better.

-- Dennis



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