Phillips's propensity for post-Lacanian abstractions and flashy linguistic inversions irritates critics like Elaine Showalter, who noted in a review of Phillips's last book, "Equals," that his observations were "pithy rather than persuasive".
In epic, mock-epic, philosophical poems, or witty society pieces he was preeminent, but to the modern critic the linguistic intensity that might indicate genius is missing.
Many of the words selected by critics to illustrate the linguistic decay supposedly permeating the Third could also be found in their beloved Second, published three decades earlier; they just didn't bother looking.
The original play is again a stage favourite today, and is also acclaimed by academic critics, who praise its linguistic energy, sharp social satire, and openness to different interpretations.
The excitement of watching Valk seemed to provoke critics to soar into the linguistic stratosphere.
For their part, right-wing critics have observed Mr. Obama's linguistic fluidity with a mix of admiration and outrage.
In this sense, ambiguity has been the source of much frustration, bemusement, and amusement for philosophers, lexicographers, linguists, cognitive scientists, literary theorists and critics, authors, poets, orators and just about everyone who considers the interpretation(s) of linguistic signs.
They exist in real time; therefore the critic has more descriptive and linguistic responsibility than the reviewer.
It owed its origins in part to the linguistic and other work of French philosophers and critics such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
Having been embraced by ordinary Spaniards and Latin Americans and derided by critics, Tellado is finally vaulting the linguistic divide with the publication of the first professional English translation of one of her novels.
