Economists think they are Social Scientists. Social Scientists think they are Psychologists. Psychologists think they are Biologists. Biologists think they are Organic Chemists. Organic Chemists think they are Physical Chemists.
Physical Chemists think they are Physicists.
Physicists think they are Mathematicians. Mathematicians think they are God. Yet literary study has sometimes been itself the object of emulation. Art history today deploys methods and terminology that were formative for literary studies, like semiotics, psychoanalysis, and new historicism. In theater and dance studies, the disciplines that are most envied and copied are anthropology, history, and gender theory.