As this example suggests, imaginati

As this example suggests, imaginatively accessible space does not play a fundamentally different role within a narrative than physically- and perceptually accessible space. Just as perceptually accessible space can provide information to the immediate setting and shape a trajectory for narrative desire, so too can imaginative space perform these narrative functions. We might think, for example, about the way in which the search for “The City" structures the last part of Evelyn WaughS A Handful of Dust. Tony La的ill-fated and unrealistic fondness for his traditional English estate (Hetton) becomes transformed here into a search for an imaginary place that embodies these same qualities：“He had a clear picture of it in his mind. It was Gothic in character 过i vanes and pinnacles, gargoyles, battlements, groining and tracery, pavilions and terraces, a transfigured Hetton, pennons and banners floating on the sweet breeze, everything luminous and translucent. ”23 And, like these other types of accessible space, these imaginary spaces are positioned in relation to the immediate setting. It is precisely because of his impending divorce and his inability to inhabit the contemporary world that Tony projects the City and takes off in search of it; this imaginary space lifts him out of everyday life.