The Study Of Merleau-Ponty's Literature View

As a famous philosopher in France,Merleau-Ponty has made great achievements in the field of phenomenology.At present,domestic and foreign scholars have conducted in-depth analysis on the body perception and aesthetics.The reasons about rare research about his literary is that his relevant literature was scattered,this is not to say that his literary works is rare.So,We set about the study.In the middle and later stage of Merleau-Ponty,he believe that body-perception and culture are interlinked and extend the study of body-perception to the field of culture.Merleau-Ponty believes that the body is closely related to the expression of literature,the field of literature is the expansion of body-consciousness,literature is a behavior of body's expression,in literary activities,I coexist with him in the same experience world.So,literature is "quasi body",with a Gestalt structure as well as the body.The literary view of Merleau-Ponty has the characteristic of “vagueness”,the vagueness is not “life ontology” that based on modern life philosophy,but show that return to the perceptual experience of the world.Merleau-Ponty emphasize the literature has the characteristics of paradox,the clarity of literary language with the experience of the invisible world as the dark background.Last,literature has historical significance is that the main body of deformation for adjust to the experience of the world,is that a kind of "Poetics of experience life";"prose" is a sort of "expression of the literature" that between "the general prose" and poetry,with history and innovation.On the basis of his philosophical theory,Merleau-Ponty's literary thought is influenced by his growing experience and some philosophers and their thoughts.The contribution of Merleau-Ponty's literary thought is reflected in the following five aspects: the inheritance and innovation of Husserl's phenomenology as well as improvement of empiricism and rationalism;the criticism of only western Marxism,scientific objectivism,rational and absolute truth;the creative application of Gestalt Theory;The words and the body have equal status;the expansion of structuralism and aesthetics.Merleau-Ponty's view of literature had a profound influence on the western literary theory.Foucault,Strauss more than once expressed the importance of Merleau to Structuralism theory.Meanwhile,Merleau-Ponty's literature has its limitation.Influenced by his phenomenology thoughts,his literary thought did not escape from host and guest opposite pattern,also did not well done the phenomenological discussion in the field of literature.