Literary Theory Today: Any reactions to C. John Holcomb's views?

"Large sections of current literary theory are preposterous, too wrong-headed to be worth untangling by the professional philosopher, an affront to commonsense and practical experience.

But the older procedures of marshaling fact and argument are apparently tainted with the shortcomings of western society, complicit with its cheap intellectualizations, its hypocrisies and technical barbarism.

Perhaps the personal and the authentic, what literature has championed down the ages, have been set aside by a rampant materialism.

Academic life has been terrorized by crass market forces, literature prostituted, the publishing houses hijacked by lawyers and accountants indifferent to art."