Reresentation in (modern) Literature?

The article asks for the application of the (I) idea of representation ('Stellvertretung') in modern (German) literature. Of course, the explicit expression 'Stellvertretung' will be found only in a few works of modern literature, for example in (II) the drama 'Der Stellvertreter' by Rolf Hochhuth and in (III) the novel 'Feuerland' by Arnold Stadler, which both criticize a traditional understanding of representation. Part IV of the article therefore turns to the problem, how far literature itself can be named as a kind of representation. In reference to some reflections on the feature of literature in Robert Musil's novel 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' a semiotic understanding of representation will be worked out, which could make the idea of representation plausible in a new way.