So one of my modules this semester is on literary stylistics. This is great, the subject is intriguing and will be useful for analysis.
However apparently there is, like, an intense stigma around the subject from literary analysts? It's just one sided too, so folks in stylistics are just trying to argue that analysing text from a linguistics perspective can be interesting, whilst lit analysts keep trying to argue that it inhibits creative readings (?) and is too 'scientific', despite stylistics literally being very open about being an act of interpretation.
Also the Fowler-Bateson debate is a funny example of academic beef. "it is common knowledge that most structural linguists don't write particularly good English prose" is one line from Bateson's response to Fowler, and his second response quite literally starts with "Would I allow my sister to marry a linguist? It is a good question." Which... Is insane lol