Christopher Butler (literary scholar)
(Ian) Christopher Butler (1940 – 18 March 2020) was an English literature academic. An expert on modernism, he was Professor of English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford.[1]
He died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on 18 March 2020.[1]
Selected works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b The Death of Professor Christopher Butler, Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 19 March 2020. Accessed 19 December 2020.
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