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Političnost fikcije kroz destabilizaciju jezika
The Politics of Fiction through the Destabilization of Language

Author(s): Iva Simčić
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: fiction; language; system of representation; meaning; signifier; signified; political

Summary/Abstract: Continuous dialogues between readers and fiction works (art) create new and unstable understandings and perceptions of reality. Nevertheless, those cognitions are always determined by language/discourse, encoded by preexisting fixed meanings and our knowledge. This paper theorizes a possibility of fiction – which always reflects, reproduces and refers to provisional reality perceptions – to destabilize language/discourse and subsequently question and challenge the stability of reality sustained by it.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 70-73
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Serbian