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Originally Posted by Lurker
I was once told in the comments I was given on an essay I had done that I had been "too harsh" on Barthes and that this was a flaw with the essay. But it should have nothing to do with whether it's harsh but whether it's wrong or right or well argued!! This is the problem when you have literary critics, some will actually be able to think about what they're reading and be able to criticise, but those people are few and far between.
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Being "too harsh" can be poorly argued if you're uncharitably setting up a straw man to beat around for a whole paper. I've read some pretty odorous intellectual masturbation done in that style and it's boring.