Antony Easthope's Science of poetry in Merlie M. Alunan's Hearthstone sacred tree

Date of Publication

1995

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Honor/Award

Awarded as best thesis, 1995

Thesis Adviser

Marjorie Evasco-Pernia

Defense Panel Chair

Lilia Maria S. Sevillano

Defense Panel Member

Jhoanna Lynn Cruz
Leilani Macatangay

Abstract/Summary

Writers from the past differ largely from the writers at present. On the other hand, readers from the past differ largely from the readers at present. However, writers from the past and writers at present can be found in writers at any given time. In the same way that readers from the past and readers at present can also be found in readers at any given time. How this is possible depends mainly on the literary work, that which is recognized to be a work at any given time.

Using bourgeois literary criticism and Antony Easthope's science of poetry, this paper will show a discursive reading of four of the poems in Merlie M. Alunan's Hearthstone Sacred Tree. With the merging of the two disciplines, this thesis will illustrate how the interplay of the old discourse and the new discourse form one big discourse.

In so doing, this thesis will point out how Alunan's poems can continuously surprise its readers as it is read and re-read, thereby providing an example of how literary works could possibly live through time.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU06736

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

82 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Poetry

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