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Hypermapping Diocletians's Palace: A City in Books

The attention is devoted to the ways in which the author, through the narrator, reveals his own presence, particulary in the various value characterisations of the space, which vary on a scale from expert assessments of the value of a given locality or artefact to statements that reveal the author as belonging to, and having the prejudices typical of a given civilisation or culture. A special emphasis was placed on the detection of explicitly-stated feelings and thougts indicated by feelings, which the narrator voices on behalf of the implicit author. While a neutral narration with the occacional appearence of the subject "I" is characteristic of Adam, in Jackson's text, written a century later, the objective of factual situation is often enriched with subjective experience. Literature creates its own specific place. A reconstruction of the space and particulary its meanings is possible through familiarisation with different texts about the past and the present of this space. A comparison of the two texts showed how differently the authors recorded the space of Diocletian's Palace.

Robert Adam, Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia ; T.G. Jackson, Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado ; comparative literature ; topology

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