The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction

Abstract

cities has a different structure and each is embodied differently in the literary text. Despite the individual intelligence at work in these studies, the failure to see this essential point is a failure these books have in common. Interdisciplinary studies are often the weakest kind of literary criticism because they lack a methodology that does justice to both objects of study-here literature and the city. We can see that weakness in both these books on the literary city in which the literature takes priority over the city-the workings of the mind once again triumphing in modern criticism over the workings of a physical place.