Poem: “Temporal Distance” + Forms of representation in literature

Abstract

Literature is linked deeply to the phenomena of representation, it combines this phenomena – being present before the eye of the reader, while reading and being pre- or postpresent with its content at the very same time. A literary text therefore is able to create a different reality, set up out of location and time, if it is affecting the reader. There can be found two dimensions of representation: The locational layer and the temporal layer.