A Formalistic Approach to Demetillos Barter in Panay An Epic - Leo A B Biclar Kartoniert (TB)

Maragtas is popular to the students as the basis of the history of the Panay Island Philippines but was rejected as neither folkloric nor historical. Ricaredo Demetillos Barter in Panay (1961) is a literary epic and the authors appropriation to project the racial urges and desires for freedom righteousness and justice for our people using the Maragtas as his source. The book presents the literary characteristics of the text as prize-winning epic. It determines the authors literary ideology and tradition through a comparative analysis of the text and its source. Through formalistic-context ualist approach and reader-response theory the authors and his literary personas social class as bourgeois proletarian whose consistency is deemed questionable were revealed. The Filipino worldviews socio-political and traditional cultures are unveiled for preservation. Thus the book strengthens the significance of Barter in Panay: An Epic in the canon of Philippine national literature.