Antony Easthope
{{Short description|British literary scholar}}
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Antony Easthope (14 April 1939{{Spaced en dash}}14 December 1999) was a British scholar, writer, and literary controversialist.
Easthope was educated at Tiffin School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught English by Graham Hough.{{cite news |last1=Belsey |first1=Catherine |title=Antony Easthope: Cultural Critic Undaunted by Words, Wisdom and Waiters |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/dec/17/guardianobituaries2 |access-date=7 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=16 December 1999}} He spent most of his career at Manchester Metropolitan University. He taught also at Brown University, the University of Warwick, Wolfson College, Oxford, the University of Adelaide, and the University of Virginia.{{cite web |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/antony-easthope |title=British Council: Literature |access-date=7 October 2020}} 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.{{cite news |title=Under the Influence of Philip K. Dick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/03/philipkdick |access-date=7 October 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=2 August 2002}}
Major works
- Poetry as Discourse. London: Methuen, 1983.{{Cite journal|last=Dowling|first=Lee H.|date=1984|title=Poetry as Discourse by Antony Easthope (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/460163/summary|journal=Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature|language=en|volume=38|issue=4|pages=246–247|issn=1948-2833}}
- 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.{{Cite journal|last=Jarvis|first=M. R|date=March 2000|title=Antony Easthope., Englishness and National Culture|journal=English|language=en|volume=49|issue=193|pages=73–78|doi=10.1093/english/49.193.73|issn=0013-8215}}
- 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.
See also
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Category:20th-century British writers
Category:Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge