Death of Thomas Butler

[Ellen Elias-Bursac]

Thank you, Antje.


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:31 PM, antje postema <apostema at uchicago.edu>wrote:

> Dear Prof. Maher,
> I would request that you keep these kind of inflammatory statements off of
> SEELANGS. Not only does such anecdotal revisionism have no place on a list
> like this at any time, it most certainly does not when tastelessly appended
> to obituary information.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> -antje
>
> _________________
> Antje Postema
> University of Chicago
> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:10 AM, J P Maher wrote:
>
> Tom malso authored *Monumenta Serbo-Croatica* (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic
> Publications, 1980);
>
>
> http://www.jstor.org.rwlib.neiu.edu:2048/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq
>
> This link is to Tom Butler's 1993 article "Yugoslavia, Mon Amour",
> echoing Resnais's film on Hiroshima... Butler was fair to all sides and
> critical in the best sense. I talked on the phone with him after reading
> this piece and advised him that he was ill-advised to believe the NY Times
> spin on  "the destruction of Dubrovnik" in 1991. I went there with a
> cameraman on 25 March 1992, three months after the "destruction". Totally
> rebuilt, as wags put it "more beautiful and older than before".  The only
> demolished building in the Old City was a palazzo across the way from the
> Orthodox church, belonging to the Croat artist Ivo Grbic. His shingle on
> the façade of the fire-gutted building in English and Serbian Cyrillic
> advertise ICONS ~IKONE. Surrounding houses were unscathed. The destruction
> was by plastique and incendiaries, laid on the spot, not by JNA navy
> guns. j p maher
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Loren Billings <sgnillib at GMAIL.COM>
> *To:* SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:11 PM
> *Subject:* [SEELANGS] Death of Thomas Butler
>
> Martha Forsyth recently posted in the Bulgarian Studies Association list:
>
> BEGIN
> I am sorry to have to share the news I received yesterday, that Prof.
> Thomas Butler passed away earlier this week, at age 84.
>
> Tom authored "Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian
> Texts from the 9th to the 19th Centuries", published in 1996 by
> University of Michigan as part of their Michigan Slavic Materials
> collection. As he states in his Preface: "The operative assumption
> throughout this book has been that if we wish to begin to understand a
> nation, we must first come to terms with its cultural memory." The
> texts begin with St. Constantine-Cyril's "Sermon on the translation fo
> the relics of St. Clement of Rome" and continue through the 19th
> century National Revival; also included are folklore materials -
> songs, folktales, proverbs, riddles, and incantations.
>
> For Bulgarian Studies Association, however, I'm not sure if he was one
> of the founding members, but he was certainly one of the early
> members, holding the position of Secretary-Treasurer from 1978-1980.
> END
>
> Catherine Rudin added (in a message to me), "I'm sure he was a
> founding member; he organized the first conference, in 1972 or 73,
> which I got to help out at as a very excited sophomore." Indeed, the
> subtitle of the proceedings volume specifies the date: "Proceedings of
> the First International Conference on Bulgarian Studies, held at the
> University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 3-5, 1973"
>
> --Loren Billings
>
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