Preface Foreword Introduction Section I History, Narrative And Genre 1. Taking The Measure Of The Incommensurable 2. Modernity As Ambiguity 3. Domestic Digressions 4. Plots Of Land 5. Inequality In Aluísio Azevedo's O Cortiço 6. An Unliteral Construct 7. "Cityful Passing Away, Other Cityful Coming, Passing Away Too?" 8. Written Cities 9. The Architecture Of Yi Sang's Nalgae 10. The Cold War Finds A Common Home Section II Strategy, Language And Form 11. Literary Language And Architectural Meaning 12. False Landscape Syndrome 13. The City In The Brazilian Novel 14. Magic Mirrors 15. Volver A No Saber 16. Writing Atmospheres 17. The Laboratory Of Literary Architecture 18. Glasgow's Italian Centres 19. `Stop Leaning Against The Wall - It's Wet!' 20. Comics And Architecture 21. Figuring Speech