This hackwork may by sympathetically attributed to the desperate hurry she was in to meet financial needs, and then to complete her work before she died.
But it doesn't reflect well on the university that such a senior academic chooses to write polemical hackwork relating to the very field in which he holds a chair.
It is possible, then, for a piece of literary hackwork to become a masterpiece, to form the summation of a learned and judicious critic's lifetime of reading and opining.
Comics and their adaptations are at their worst when handled by creators who crank out path-of-least-resistance hackwork or lack the intuition to elevate their interpretations.
