The World, the Text, and S. P. Lopez

• Main Author: Acuña, Rafael A.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Philippine Commonwealth literature; Philippine literary criticism; proletarian literature; secular criticism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss13/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1158/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n13_2009_5D_202.2_Article_Acu_C3_B1a.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The paper studies Salvador P. Lopez’s position as a secular critic by analyzing his milieu during the Commonwealth period, criticism of his collection Literature and Society, and the content of essays from the same collection in light of the debate between “art for art’s sake” and proletarian litera...