Confrontations past and present in Philippine literature uenaventura S. Medina. - Medina, Buenaventura S. (Quezon City National Book Store, 1974)
Preface -- The folk Genius -- The indigenous -- The raconteurs -- The folk dramatists -- The epic poets -- Conquest by the cross -- Literary climate -- First centuries -- The friar poets -- The indios --The folk christian poet : Gaspar Aquino de Belen -- The corrido poet : Huseng Sisiw -- Indigenous as new -- Early prose -- First ferment -- Balagtas : critic in agony -- -The plume as sword -- Final attempts at hispanization : drama -- The friar and the indio -- Jaena and the portrait of the friar -- Writer as hero : Rizal -- Plaridel : the propagandist -- Illusion and reality : the revolutionists -- The Plebeian and the illustrado : Bonifacio and Guerrero -- The theatre : belligerent ang Benign -- Seditious siblings : Abad and Tolentino -- Metamorphosis -- The native tradition : Reyes as high priest -- The illustrado ambivalence : Recto -- early durability -- Critic and chronicler : Lope K. Santos -- Conscious commitments -- Two in tha Lopez cult : Arguilla and Laya -- Tradition as reaction -- Self in agony : Batute and Balmori -- Self as essence : Abadilla and Garcia Villa -- Critical thought : journalism as literature -- Another ferment and now -- War and the self -- War fiction : diction and design -- Rebels and others the other genres,the other media -- New commitments -Cealms of the mind : Hernandez -- The primal agony : Edroza and Arceo -- Encounter in English : Arcellana, Gonzales and Santos -- A singular voice : Nick Joaquin -- Other voices : poets and others -- The esoteric : the Spanish writer -- a pattern of commitment -- Another solidaridad -- Now : a new beginning.
Keywords: Philippine literature -- History and criticism