literary representation definition
Representation is the use of signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation that people organize the world and reality through the act of naming its elements.e recognised that literature is a representation of life, yet also believed that representations create worlds of illusion leading one away from the real things . For Plato, representation, like contemporary media, intervenes between the viewer and the real, creating illusions that lead one away from real things.