Talk:Literary science

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This page should be deleted. No English-speaking scholar would dream of using the term "Literary Science". Please read the Wikipedia page entitled "Science" to find out what "Science" means. Humanities have their own identity and that independent identity should be emphasized in translations of terms such as Literaturwissenschaft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.50.182.142 (talk) 15:17, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Literary Science is a part of the Humanities, not Social or Natural science, and is merely styled as science. I changed it to science-like, in order to clarify this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.226.54.134 (talk) 18:36, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

No, the first entry here is correct. This page should be deleted and searches should be redirected to the literary studies page. "Literary science" is a common mistranslation that is rampant in German academia. It stems from the fact that the German "Wissenschaft" can sometimes, but not always, be translated as "science," as it refers to ALL forms of knowledge. The humanities, for example, is Geisteswissenschaft, which has sometimes been mistranslated as "ghost sciences."Laurids2 (talk) 11:37, 5 December 2017 (UTC)