Academic FAIL.
Apr. 18th, 2009 10:31 pmAm working. Unhappily, but am working. Anyway, I was going back through the articles I'm using for my Gissing paper, and here's a choice quote:
It remains difficult, however, to understand why so many critics--such as Lloyd Fernando, Jacob Korg, and John Sloan--read Rhoda's final decision as defeat. The conclusion reached by these three critics can only be explained by imagining that they themselves persist in seeing an unmarried woman as useless and lacking.
OUCH! Talk about unprofessional. I can't imagine what editor could possibly have let this slip by. I certainly wouldn't have.
It remains difficult, however, to understand why so many critics--such as Lloyd Fernando, Jacob Korg, and John Sloan--read Rhoda's final decision as defeat. The conclusion reached by these three critics can only be explained by imagining that they themselves persist in seeing an unmarried woman as useless and lacking.
OUCH! Talk about unprofessional. I can't imagine what editor could possibly have let this slip by. I certainly wouldn't have.