Communicating Reality as Spatial Model of the World

Elena ABRUDAN
Communicating Reality as Spatial Model of the World
Instituția: 
Department of Journalism, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
Email autor: 
abrudanelena@yahoo.com
Abstract: 

Communicating contemporary reality is one of the main topics in 21st century discourse. Contemporary fiction is one of the means which reflect the most complex aspects of reality. It has developed in the direction of strengthening the postmodernism’s poetics and often built a world model as an apocalyptic space. It keeps the structure of the normal world, but its mythological significance is deformed. Nevertheless, this model permits the existence of versions of eternity even in the middle of that world. Therefore, our argument will follow the degree of keeping of these mythological significances and the way they have changed or have been replaced by others, suitable for the appearance of the created world and for the human attitude towards it.

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