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British literary scholar
Antony Easthope (14 April 1939 – 14 December 1999) was a scholar, writer, and literary controversialist.
Easthope was educated at
Tiffin School and
Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught English by
Graham Hough.
[1] He spent most of his career at
Manchester Metropolitan University.
[1] He taught also at
Brown University, the
University of Warwick,
Wolfson College, Oxford, the
University of Adelaide, and the
University of Virginia.
[2] In addition to scholarly and popular books on
literary theory,
film theory,
Marxism, and
psychoanalysis, Easthope was known for his letters to newspapers, particularly The Guardian, often attacking prominent literary figures.
[1]
[3]
Major works
- Poetry as Discourse. London: Methuen, 1983.
[4]
- British Post-Structuralism. London: Routledge, 1988.
- Poetry and Phantasy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
- Literary Into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1991.
- Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Regained. London: Routledge, 1993.
- Wordsworth Now and Then: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993.
- The Impact of Radical Theory on Britain in the 1970s. London: Routledge, 1994.
- Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
- Derrida and British Film Theory. St. Martin's, 1996.
- But What Is Cultural Studies? London: Routledge, 1997.
- Cinecities in the Sixties. London: Routledge, 1997.
- Classic Film Theory and Semiotics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1999.
- Englishness and National Culture. London: Routledge, 1999.
[5]
- Paradise Lost: Ideology, Phantasy and Contradiction. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
- Postmodernism and Critical and Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge, 1999.
- The Unconscious. London: Routledge, 1999.
- Freud's Spectres. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
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