Presupuestos teóricos, críticos y literarios del personalismo literario para la enseñanza

It is our main purpose to analyze the theoretical, critical and literary aspects of Literary Personalism involved in teaching. In the theoretical assumptions the relationship with the philosophical personalism is analyzed. They are presented by Lopez Quintás’ eight levels of reality and behavior. These levels are divided into four positive and four negative. The most important for our purpose are the first: a) the object level and its management, b) the level of open reality, creative attitude and encounter, c) the level of values and their inner power, its unity and unconditionallity, and d) the level of the absolute and his response to it. These levels require, according to López Quintás, a “deep insight” in order to be able to integrate all these levels. These levels of reality and behavior are related to the human person, because the human person is open to being and its transcendental reality. To appreciate or to create works of art is distinguished from the position of “art for art’s sake” as well as from those theories or literary criticism that leave everything to the reader. It seeks to save the integration of the human person in his being and actions aspiring to human love. (Jorge Mario Cabrera Valverde) In the critical assumption, Lopez Quintas’ “ludico-ambital” method is studied. It provides the use of the following concepts in literary analysis: “object / ámbito”, “meaning / sense”, “mere fact / historical fact”, “vertigo / ecstasy”. “Little Eliot” by Colombian writer David Mejia Velilla will be studied in three personalistic approaches: “person, objects and relationships”; “images, themes, advices”; and “the divine and human condition of man”. This poetic prose is a song of hope with a moral background: choose good and reject evil. The “ludico-ambital” method explores these great universal themes. (Gabriel Quesada Mora) The literary aspect will approach literature as the exploration of reality and human mystery. (Helena Ospina)