BODY AND LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION. THE EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF MAURICE HALBWACHS

• Main Author: RUBÉN DARÍO BARRETO VIANA
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Atlántico 2015-06-01
• Series: Collectivus: Revista de Ciencias Sociales
• Subjects: Collective Memory; Literature; Corporeality; Existential Phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty
• Online Access: http://investigaciones.uniatlantico.edu.co/revistas/index.php/Collectivus/article/view/1380/1042

The study of collective memory in the work of degree titled Tiempo artístico y Memoria Colectiva: La Casa Grande y Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, derived in the postulation a set of conclusions about the role that fulfill the literary work in disposition of shared memory. Therefore, the finality of this investigation is the depuration of the collective memory analysis model through the integration of the corporeality at the set of variables structured by Maurice Halbwachs in La Memoria Colectiva (2004). For this it makes use the existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, that provides a theoretical-methodological scheme that enable to subdivide in three categories the aspects differents of the human body: 1. Perception 2. Movement. 3. Instrumentality, that contribute to the critic disassemble of En la colonia penitenciaria by Frank Kafka (1995) y Bartleby, el escribiente by Herman Melville (2010).