Is postmodern literature like gravity's rainbow or infinite jest just New England academia sucking itself off and written to facilitate literary theory?
It seems like it. I browsed lit for a long time but I only just realised that there is a huge percentage of it that claim that literary theory or critical theory aren't, in summary, bullshit. It seems like leftists screaming against reason and typical of what you'd see in a university's humanities department.
Is art and humanities academia really so corrupt? Is this why reading for "mere enjoyment" is looked down upon?