Word: dilettantesã
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...something treated objectively (language) and its study as something subjective and inspired (Literature with a capital L). Since the creation of English departments in the late 19th century, “pedants” or “scholars” have shared duties with “dilettantes?? or “critics”—often angrily. Questions of methodology can lead to fierce infighting—which in turn can lead to hideous departmental nomenclature...
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