With `the death of literature', the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies.

In this book, Antony Easthope argues that, far from being universal, the main tradition of masculinity in the West is both specific and peculiar. What is masculinity?

Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

Since 1968, film theory has concentrated not so much on theme or content but on the deeper question of how the medium works on its viewer.

The book is vintage Easthope: wide-ranging, fearless, witty and a radical challenge to complacency wherever it is to be found.

This book reprints an important interview in which Jacques Derrida discusses the

This book shows the existence of the unconscious in a stunning variety of examples - from jokes and rugby songs to Hitchcock's Psycho and the life and death of Princess Diana.

In this book the author examines the relation between historical materialism and psychoanalysis for the understanding of literature.

Discussing the subject of nation - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope examines Englishness as a form and a series of shared discourses.

Its implications for the practice of literary criticism are far-reaching - and Wordsworth will never be the same again. Antony Easthope is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.