(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

• 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.