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Peter Widdowson, a pioneer of new perspectives on English literature, has died.
He was born in Coventry on 6 October 1942 and studied for his first degree and PhD at the University of Nottingham.
In 1968, he was appointed lecturer in English literature at Umea University in Sweden, but returned to England in 1971 to become head of English at what was then Thames Polytechnic.
After further posts as head of English at Middlesex University (1986-92) and head of historical and critical studies at what is now the University of Brighton (1992-93), he spent the remainder of his career at the...