I have suggested, then, that narrat

I have suggested, then, that narrative space must be understood in terms of the types of movements that it allows, and that studying these spaces merely as a matter of the “atmosphere” or the “symbolism” that they provide misses the ultimately narrative basis for these spaces. Space, I have argued, becomes narrative when it is animated by movement. In turn, narrative desire is shaped by the way in which it is deployed as a cause of these movements. Evelyn Birge Vitz, whose discussion of medieval narrative I drew on a great deal in chapter 1, discusses the relationship between space and desire. Her contrast between modern and medieval ways of organizing de sire suggests the context and limits of the model that I have offered here: