Harold Bloom

authors, who in turn highlight cultural values. Moreover, examining specific conceptions of literary influence challenges normative conceptions. Three theories are relevant; Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, Jorge Luis Borges’ Kafka and his Precursors, and Thompson’s analysis of David Foster Wallace’s B.I. #59. Accordingly, Bloom endorses linear perceptions of influence, wherein all poems are a misreading of prior works. In contrast, Borges posits that writers create their own precursors,…

A picture of the New Age: The second study of the American Yeats Yeats wrote "Second Coming" in 1919, a particularly frustrating moment in history. Europeans were shocked and cynical about World War I. Yeats's hometown, Ireland is on a civil war lunch. Russia's old order has just been overthrown by a revolution, and Yeats's fondness for nobility is feared to spread across the continent and around the globe. Yeats's view of the world's problems is not what many people quote him tonight. First of…

Moreover, the leaders of these strong dictatorial patriotic countries are often times unstable, which “makes it possible for him to be much more nationalistic — more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest — that he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge” (Notes on Nationalism). In essence, it leads to dehumanization of the individual and places the leader to believe he has an almost godlike power that can do no wrong, which explains…

Rather than just deliberately saying that Henry is sad Gardner instead used these literary techniques to show the reader how depressed Henry really is and I believe doing this makes this chapter stand out as very good literature. According to Harold Bloom ““…the representation…

has already passed, the “long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, [will perish] by this retributive instrument” (381). Literary Critic Harold Bloom adds: “Revolution as [Dickens] sees it is merely a monster that is begotten by tyranny and always ends by devouring its owns instruments” (Bloom 4576). After the oppressors are gone, “a beautiful city and a brilliant people [will rise] from this abyss” ( Dickens 381) left by the destruction of the revolution. In…

shadows glimpsed through a mirror and is far from direct observation of real life. This isolation finally prompts her to a gesture of passion and thus an embrace of her own death. The mirror cracks, symbolizing the end of her artistic abilities. Harold Bloom concludes that “the end of artistic isolation leads to the death of creativity. The artist’s intense loneliness is absolutely necessary, for all great art demands solitude and silent…

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship is often depicted as a union of a man with no backbone with a stone cold woman that will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, even if it means using her husband as a pawn. A relationship between two people who only care about their own goals and desires while having little to no romance or affection. This is the type of relationship a reader would presume Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have by only scratching the surface of Shakespeare’s writing. Although…

The Article reviewed is James Harold On the Ancient Idea that Music Shapes Character arguing the importance of music in human development and if music has effects on our moral and ethical character. James provides well-supported evidence on how ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers distinguished what “good” and “bad” music is by how it affects our emotions, attitudes, values, morals and shapes our character. James argues Chinese and Greek Philosophers ideas on why and why not music is an…

reliable print sources and then surf the web; otherwise, I believe the outcome would have been inaccurate. Thus, my research started in a book that describes and analyses many of Poe’s work. Edgar Allan Poe: Comprehensive Research And Study Guide by Harold Bloom, the author explain in detail the way Poe’s work can be analyzed and, in that way, obtain a better understanding of his writing. My goal was not only use Bloom’s work as a source but also to gain some of his experience and analysis…

"The Five Tragedies in Macbeth." Shakespeare Quarterly Winter 1962: 49-61. Rpt. in Shakespearean Criticism. Ed. Michael L. LaBlanc. Vol. 80. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Resource Center. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. Bloom, Harold. "Infobase Learning - Login." Infobase Learning. Chelsea House Publishing, 2010. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. Henry, Paul N. "Macbeth's Imagination." Infobase Learning - Login. Chelsea House Publishing, 2007. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. "Macbeth." Shakespeare for…