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Originally Posted by pbradley
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.
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Yeah you're right. But I wouldn't say I was setting up a straw man. Anyway, I was comparing Barthes's 'Death of The Author' with Freud's 'Creative Writers and Daydreaming', we had to argue one as being better and I see don't much good in the Barthes essay.