Reading prague: narrative domains of the image of the city in fiction.

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The city in the actual world is an artificial, man-made structure. It is based on radical reconstruction of the natural world that brings into existence certain spatial settings and arbitrary rules that model the behavior of its inhabitants and visitors. The process of creating a fictional world in literature can draw on this ready-made artifice of the actual-world city. Thus the images of the city in literature can generally be built up with seemingly little effort. A narrator's use of a name like London, Paris, or Amsterdam seems to bring the whole sum of a cultural ...

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