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Study: Writers more influenced by contemporaries than literary classics

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Harold Bloom famously dubbed it the “anxiety of influence” (paywall): the effect which the literary canon has on writers. Less today than it did in the past, according to a mathematical study which analysed thousands of works written over the last 500 years. American mathematicians, led by the chair of…

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