The Filipino kritiko writes back: A thematic analysis of Bienvenido Lumbera's Revaluation

• Main Author: Jamero, Filipinas A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Lumbera; Bienvenido > Criticism and interpretation; Bienvenido Revaluation : Essays on Philippine Literature; Cinema and Popular Culture; Revaluation : Essays on Philippine Literature; cinema and Popular culture; Literature > History and criticism; Literary historians > Philippines; Comparative Literature
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_honors/67
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper would provide a thematic analysis of Bienvenido Lumbera's Revolution (1984), a collection of essays on Philippine criticism, through a survey of the different developments in the field of Philippine literature particularly in the field of Philippine literary history. To substantiate the analysis,a thorough discussion of the critic's intervention in Philippine criticism would be included.This paper aims to draw firsthand insights from Lumbera himself and this was undertaken by a interview with the critic, and which transcription is also provided in this study. This paper also aims to show the different facets in the personality of one of the country's leading literary historians.