> when such discussions become an
> academic credentialing ritual, valued intrinsically for its careerist
> utility (as well as, perhaps, for the narcissistic pleasure of
> indulging in it) and having only a tenuous if any connection to what's
> really valuable in literature.
Of course in English language speaking countries at least the same
thing has happened to a great extent with poetry itself.
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