Stuart Christie

Bio

Stuart Christie is Head and Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral (Routledge, 2005; paperback ed., 2013), Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and the co-editor, along with Zhang Yuejun, of Modern American Poetry and the Chinese Encounter (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Literature Compass.

Contributions

The Face of the Buddha by William Empson

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However much we may agree or disagree with the modernist English literary critic, William Empson—or, at times, even scratch our heads at him—it is generally accepted that he was a marvel. He possessed a decidedly unbridled critical talent, one that emerged fully only once the globalization of modernist literary production and art intersected with a corresponding epistemological demand: th