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Bloom published his first work—Shelley’s Mythmaking—in 1959 and has continued to write and think seriously about literature ever since. His 1973 work The Anxiety of Influence earned him international acclaim for its novel contention that authors are constantly aware of their predecessors’ achievements and “misread” them in order to achieve originality. “Influence,” Bloom wrote, “is influenza—an astral disease...
...years following Shakespeare, Bloom sought to write books for a more popular audience, specifically on the importance of literature in informing our lives. His 2000 publication, How to Read and Why, was an assessment of literature’s importance on life throughout the ages...
...those notebooks neatly lined up on your shelf, overflowing with equations and philosophical principles? Well, hate to break it to you, but all of those expos papers you passed in at 4:59 P.M. aren’t going to help you graduate. You forgot to write the most important paper of all: your diploma slip...
Present! found its birth at the Manifesto Party last October in Adams House’s Kronauer Space, when the founding members gathered together to write and make proclamations of their personal and artistic ideas. “It was really exciting to hear my friends’ formal writing in an informal setting,” said Coll, one of the group’s major organizers...
...stemming from different aspects of a person’s personality. Perfectionism in its most extreme form is a manifestation of psychological disorder or neurosis—a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), perhaps. People who have this type of perfectionism could take up to 20 minutes to write a check or fill out a simple form because of the compulsive need to check, double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check their work and make sure that it is absolutely mistake-free. Neurotic perfectionists are unable to derive any sense of satisfaction from their efforts, because they are mentally prohibited...