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>tfw the American academy is not teaching the literary giants that its country has produced over the past half century (Gaddis, Barth, Coover, McElroy, Gass, DeLillo, Pynchon, Mccarthy, Vollmann, Wallace) to professionally explain the golden rule over and over again.
seriously, wtf. I know you guys like to meme and make fun of the memes as well, but you really cannot deny these authors are doing/did serious work and deserve to be studied over the bullshit they crowd their program with now.
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>>9605114
I thought this was a serious post until I saw Pynchon in that list
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>>9605114
i know for a fact that both harvard and yale have had classes on most of those authors
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>>9605114
>serious work
Good luck qualifying this faggot, I'll see you on the other side of the river that begins with Kant and ends with Flusser. In all seriousness though, remove DFW and you've a fine list whatever that means.
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>>9605114
>tfw non-Americans who are clearly too stupid to attend elite American universities start telling you what elite American universities are like
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>>9605114
They literally are taught.
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>>9605220
they are unfortunately a lot like Bloom says, but that's not to say that they don't also teach the greats.
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>literary giant
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OP has never been to college
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OP here, my school thankfully isn't sjw infested or ideologied but they don't teach books/poetry past Eliot
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