Philippine

Literary Periods
PRE-COLONIAL
PERIOD
Stories are
(BC-1564) passed orally
LITERARY FORMS
 Oral Literature
 Riddles
 Proverbs
 Folk Songs – expresses hope and aspirations
 Lullabies
 Drinking Songs
 Harana
 Songs of Death
 Religious Songs
LITERARY FORMS

 Folktales
 Myths depicts how the world is created
 Legends depicts the origin of things
 Fables has animal characters and has a lesson in
the end
 Fantasti Stories mythical creatures are the main
characters
 Epics depicts heroic deeds of the main
character
SPANISH PERIOD
(1521-1898) Stories have
Christian Ideals
Types of Literature:

⊳ Pasyon- a Christian narrative poem intended to

replace the epics poems of the pagan past.
⊳ Senakulo
a stage plays on the passion and death of Christ.
⊳ Komedya
drew its plot from medieval Spanish ballads
Notable during the Spanish Period

⊳ 1593- Dominicans put out Doctrina

DtriocnaCristiana,
Crianista
the first printed book.
⊳ 1887- Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) is
published. It expose Spain’s abuse of the
Philippines as well as its people.
⊳ 1888- El Filibusterismo is published.
⊳ It is dedicated in memory of the Gomburza.
GMBROUZA
Notable during the Spanish Period
⊳ Antonio Luna published La Independencia, a
Spanish revolutionary literature.
⊳ Francisco Baltazar- Florante at Laura
⊳ La Solidaridad- the newspaper of the propaganda
movement. Marcelo H. del Pilar (Plaridel): editor of
La Solidarida
⊳ Pedro Paderno: Ninay- the 1st Filipino novel.
⊳ Sampaguita- a collection of Spanish poems that
marked the beginning of national consciousness
among the Filipino intelligencia.
AMERICAN PERIOD
(1910-1945)
Period of Apprenticeship (1910-1930)
⊳ Filipino writers imitated English
and American style of writing

Short Stories
⊳ Dead Stars (1925) by Paz Marquez Benitez
⊳ Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa
Novel
⊳ Child of Sorrow (1921) by Zoilo Galang – is the first
novel written by a Filipino that is written in the
English language
Period of Emergence
(1920-1930)
Stories are inspired and
influenced by Romanticism and
Realism
JAPANESE PERIOD
(1942-1960)
Three Types of Poems

It is made up of A short poem with

seventeen (17) thirty-one syllables Like haiku, it is
syllables divided into long. It is unrhymed short, but has
three (3) lines. The and has units of five, measure and rhyme.
first line has five, the seven, five, seven Consisting of four
second – seven and and seven syllables, lines with seven
the third- five. It is which traditionally syllables that is to
allegorical in printed as one say a 7-7-7-7
meaning, touch of unbroken line. syllabic verse.
nature, emotion and
time.
CONTEMPORARY
PERIOD Stories are
focused on
(1960-present) freedom and
rights
Characteristics of Modern Literature
Writers used symbolism and allegories
Theater was used as a vehicle for protest
⊳ PETA (Philippines Educational Theater
Association)
⊳ UP Theater

From the 80s and onwards, writers continue

to show dynamic writing and innovation in
their stories.