Background
Casper, Leonard Ralph was born on July 6, 1923 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Louis and Caroline (Eder) Casper.
("The Circular Firing Squad" presents itself as a semi-doc...)
"The Circular Firing Squad" presents itself as a semi-documentary novella--a scenario for cinema verite. Its foreground characters are inventions, refugees from the realms of possibility--inventions but nor exaggerations. After all, "the sax and violins" performances by delegates from history involved with the Manila International Film Festival '83 were prelude only to the assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino in August of that year. In turn, revulsion at the grossness of his murder led to opposition victories in the election of 1984, and to EDSA in 1986.
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(University of New Mexico Press Published date: 1962. Hard...)
University of New Mexico Press Published date: 1962. Hard cover, 235 pp. From front jacket flap If you have yet to discover the pure gold of English written in the Philippines, treasure is in store for you. A Filipino literary renaissance has been sensed by a coterie of experts from Edward O'Brien's enthusiastic tribute in The Best Short Stones of 1932 through the full-length printing of Nick Joaquins 'The Woman Who Had Two Navels" by Partisan Review in 1953. Yet these sixteen stories are not caviar to the general or just for the avant-garde - they will grip any reader. Stories such as Daguio's "Wedding Dance, Arguilla's "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," Gonzalez' "Lupo and the River" and Diaz' "Death in a Sawmill" depict the exotic primitivism of rural island life. Others (Arcellana's "Divide by Two") are urban, suburban, and down to earth. Some, like Nuyda's "Pulse of the Land," contrast Western character and values with those of the Orient. Here is no regional writing in any cultist sense - like all true artists these nine are intensely individual-yet if one factor unites them, it is a pervasive, quiet realism, a discipline that has been called "a struggle for poise in the very act of seizing experience." Biographical sketches tell of the authors in war as guerrillas, members of the underground, and in the Huk uprisings. But war is of little importance in these sixteen stories.
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(An excerpt from the Introduction: Beyond a supple structu...)
An excerpt from the Introduction: Beyond a supple structure which allows essay to speak to essay in easy evolution, In Burning Ambush occasionally adds "afterwords" to what originally appeared in the sources acknowledged. Finally, I sense a common theme, that of betrayal-of self, of countrymen, of a nation in need-in many of these works written during the limbo years of Marcos rule. I can only hope that, in turn I have not betrayed any of these same works by analyses so candid as to seem uncaring...
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(An excerpt from Chapter 1: Critics have been known to cri...)
An excerpt from Chapter 1: Critics have been known to criticize not only the interpretations of a given work presented by other critics, but their theories of literary purpose as well. That is the happy condition of an open society- happy, because the exchange of viewpoints can lead to real intellectual growth in all those participants who manage to disagree without being disagreeable...
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(Amador T. Daguio, Dominador I. Ilio, Oscar de Zuniga, Car...)
Amador T. Daguio, Dominador I. Ilio, Oscar de Zuniga, Carlos A. Angeles, Edith L. Tiempo, Ricaredo Demetillo "It is not often that society listens to its poets. In a country like ours where barbers can be more respectable than writers of verse, poets have to come disguised in as many ways as the imagination can make masks for them. The incredible thing is that they continue as poets, though it has never been easy to breathe through the masks." "In this book are newspapermen, teachers, and public servants--in short, practical people--who have functioned as poets, not off and on, but rather consistently. The masks have become no longer livable." "Mr. Dominador I Ilio, tearing the thing off his face one morning, showed us a collection of his poems. Thus an idea was born. Dr Leonard Casper thought six poets would be more interesting than one and agreed to undertake a selection. Why six, not nine? Why not fifteen or seventeen? But truly, six would make a nice little book. So that was that. " N.V.M. Gonzalez January 16, 1955
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Casper, Leonard Ralph was born on July 6, 1923 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Louis and Caroline (Eder) Casper.
Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1948; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1953.
Graduate assistant University Wisconsin, 1949-1951. Instructor Cornell University, 1952-1953. Assistant professor University Philippines, 1953-1956, Fulbright lecturer, 1962-1963, summer 1973.
Member faculty Boston College, since 1956, professor contemporary American literature, 1963-1993, professor emeritus, 1993—1999. Lecturer RSVP/SOAR, since 2001. Director creative writing University Rhode Island, 1958.
Lecturer in field.
(An excerpt from the Introduction: Beyond a supple structu...)
(An excerpt from Chapter 1: Critics have been known to cri...)
("The Circular Firing Squad" presents itself as a semi-doc...)
(University of New Mexico Press Published date: 1962. Hard...)
(Studies in Philippine and American literature.)
(Robert Penn Warren's later novels, 1959-1977)
(Amador T. Daguio, Dominador I. Ilio, Oscar de Zuniga, Car...)
Served with Field Artillery, Army of the United States, 1943-1946.
Married Linda Velasquez-Ty, June 2, 1956. Children: Gretchen Gabrielle, Kristina Elise.