I have some experience with university-level literary analysis at the moment when that field became irretrievably converged. One of my instructors was old school, and you couldn’t sneak a weak thesis past him. If the text didn’t legitimately support what you claimed, he would fail your ass.

My second instructor was a leftist woman. She would pass literally anything so long as you started with the “correct” (aka feminist) conclusions. People in the classes wrote the most insane analyses backed by laughably thin evidence - and often times explicitly contrary to the bulk of the text - and she just lapped that shit up.

I eventually stopped trying altogether in her classes. It was way easier to just bullshit my way through it all with boilerplate feminist nonsense. She gave me A’s. I correctly assessed that the entire field of literary criticism was fraudulent idiocy.