(Ian) Christopher Butler (1940 – 18 March 2020) was an English literature academic. An expert on
modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...
, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at
Christ Church,
Oxford
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.
[The Death of Professor Christopher Butler]
Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 19 March 2020. Accessed 19 December 2020.
He died at the
John Radcliffe Hospital
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in Oxford on 18 March 2020.
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Selected works
* ''Number symbolism''. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1970.
* (ed. with Alasdair Fowler) ''Topics in criticism: an ordered set of positions in literary theory''. Harlow: Longman, 1971.
* ''After the wake : an essay on the contemporary avant-garde''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
* ''Interpretation, deconstruction, and ideology : an introduction to some current issues in literary theory''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
* ''Early modernism : literature music and painting in Europe, 1900-1916''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
* 'The 'Idea' in Philosophy and in Literature', ''REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature'', Vol. 13 (1997)
* ''Postmodernism: a very short introduction''. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
* ''Pleasure and the arts : enjoying literature, painting, and music''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
* (ed. with Judith Curthoys and Brian Young) ''Christ Church, Oxford: A Portrait of the House''. Third Millennium Publishing, 2006.
* ''Modernism: a very short introduction''. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
References
External links
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
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1940 births
2020 deaths
Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford
British academics of English literature