Antony Easthope

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Belsey, Catherine (16 December 1999). "Antony Easthope: Cultural Critic Undaunted by Words, Wisdom and Waiters". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  2. ^ "British Council: Literature". Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Under the Influence of Philip K. Dick". The Guardian. 2 August 2002. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  4. ^ Dowling, Lee H. (1984). "Poetry as Discourse by Antony Easthope (review)". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 38 (4): 246–247. ISSN 1948-2833.
  5. ^ Jarvis, M. R (March 2000). "Antony Easthope., Englishness and National Culture". English. 49 (193): 73–78. doi:10.1093/english/49.193.73. ISSN 0013-8215.