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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelAs a sign system, literature is not limited to the imaginative world only. Literature,
however, is also a system which involves the author, the work, the reader, and the field of
knowledge (society).
Although the facts presented tend to be mental facts, it does not mean that facts in
literature cannot be seen as data about the existing social reality. Referring to literature as a
sign system, which stresses the mimetic and creative aspects, literature as a construction can be
seen as the reflection of reality with two dimensions, subjective and objective. Therefore, the
assumption that facts in literature are not the reflections of reality cannot be accepted.
Based on the framework of semiotic thinking which emphasizes literature as a sign system,
the social dimension could be applied in literary approaches, one of them is the constructivist
theory of reality by Berger and Luckman.
Through the constructivist theory of reality, literature can be analyzed as the reflections of
subjective and objective realities. In other words, literary approach can be directed from
literature as the product and its author.