The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

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The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism

Written by José García Villa
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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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Publisher Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published 2002
ISBN 1852934
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José García Villa is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, José García Villa can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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