Contents:
Introduction
Literary criticism in the Philippines
Nick Joaquin, The Legend of the Dying Wanton
The Summer Solstice
Rony Diaz, The Centipede

People Power and the Creative Writer
The Role of the Writer in a Revolutionary Age
The Challenge of National Growth to the Philippine Writer
Outside the Ivory Tower
That Oxymoron, Freedom
The Fallacy of Expressive Form
The Impact of the New Criticism in the Philippines
Longinus on a Poem by Sappho

Aristotle's Idea of Plot Unity:
It's Application to the short Story
Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart
Ambros Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Anton, Chekhov, The Lament
General Observations on the Short Story
Austin Warren on Kafka's
The Penal Colony as Allegory

Poe's Unique Effect and Trilling's Peripheral Approach
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Lionel Thrilling, The Other Margaret

Point of View: Definer of Meaning
Ernest Hemingway, The Short Happy
Life of Francis Macomber
Manuel E. Arguilla, How My Brother Leon
Brought Home a Wife
William Faulkner, That Evening Sun

Whose Meaning?
The Role of the Arts and Literature in Society
Literature Teaching in the Philippines
Consorcio Borje, The Shoes of Chadliwan

Reader as Co-Creator
Man as Co-Creator
On Liberal Education
The Graduate School and the University
The Rationale for Graduate Research in the Philippine Context
Tagalog: The Fourth Colonization
The Meaning of Suffering
The Christian Faith and Literature

Lucasta: A New Look
Richard Lovelace: Lucasta, Going to the Wars

Erotic Elements in Middle English Religious poetry on Christ and the Virgin
Mindanao Harvest
The Stories of Manuel E. Arguilla
The Fiction of N. V. M. Gonzalez
Carlos Bulosan and the Problem of Artistic Sensibility
What the Critics Say about the Works of E. K. Tiempo