A Multicritique on Sionil Jose’s and Nick Joaquin’s Select Penworks

Abstract

A multicritique denotes to employing a number of criticisms in identifying the extent of the textuality of a certain work of art applying the different theories on a particular literary genre. This study delves on the three paired-off textualities of Francisco Sionil Jose’s The God Stealer, The Refugee, and The Forest with the penworks of Nicomedes “Nick” Joaquin’s May Day Eve, Summer Solstice, and Three Generations, which focus on the theories of signified reality or mimesis, the writer’s presence or expressivist, the structural element or objectivist and the readers signified human experience or readers-response theory.
Findings confirm that the penworks of Sionil Jose and Nick Joaquin signify parallel realities which clearly inform the readers that a literary work of art is indeed an imitation from the reality of life, and therefore should be appreciated and read. That some stories are also reflections of the author’s lives, family, education and environment which should be understood well especially in doing an analysis. Likewise, formalism theory takes an important part in the reader’s comprehension since it deals with the structure of the parts of a particular genre. Similarly,readers-response is equally important since it gives the reader the freedom to give his reaction as to how a genre influences his/her thoughts and feelings.
Based on the findings, it is concluded that the chosen four theories of literature are important in comprehending and analyzing a certain literary genre, be it a fiction, short story, or drama and from precise analysis of students translational researches may formulated either by the faculty or students which could be used as additional instruction materials in the classroom.