Antony Easthope (14 April 193914 December 1999) was a British scholar, writer, and literary controversialist. Easthope was educated at Tiffin School and

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, where he was taught English by

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. He spent most of his career at

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. He taught also at

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. In addition to scholarly and popular books on

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, and

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, Easthope was known for his letters to newspapers, particularly ''The Guardian'', often attacking prominent literary figures.

Major works

*''Poetry as Discourse.'' London: Methuen, 1983. *''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. *''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Easthope, Antony 20th-century British writers Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge British literary critics 1939 births 1999 deaths

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