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The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

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This is the first anthology of Villa’s essays written from the 1920s to the 1950s, which created a canon of Philippine fiction and poetry—essays counting as among the most significant in Philippine literary criticism in English.

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Imprint Ateneo de Manila University Press
Released 2002
Identifier (ISBN) 1852934
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