A casebook on Gerontion

by Epifanio San Juan Jr.

The Charles E. Merrill Literary Casebook Series. These casebooks deal with literary works brief enough to be read at one sitting. They provide intensive study of one piece with different points of view. Includes Gerontion by T.S. Eliot and 13 essays on Gerontion.

138 pages, unknown

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Epifanio San Juan, Jr. is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual. His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism.

San Juan applies a Gramscian approach and a critical Marxist optic on cultural events and texts in the Philippine historical process of national liberation. He is also notable for being the first Filipino male intellectual to have engaged with feminist discourse in his "Filipina Insurgency: Writing Against Patriarchy" (Giraffe Books, 1999). In 1999, San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.

Reviews

[Ken]

Around 13 essays by various authors on the relatively short poem Gerontion, by T.S. Eliot.