Map and Text: World-Architecture and the Case of Miéville’s Perdido Street Station
Map and Text: World-Architecture and the Case of Miéville’s Perdido Street Station
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地图和文字：世界建筑和米耶维尔佩尔迪多街车站案例
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2018
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S. Ekman
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S. Ekman
在这篇文章中，作者认为，分析一部带有地图的奇幻小说，而不考虑地图和文本之间的动态，将是省略了虚构世界的一个重要部分。通过借鉴维特鲁维亚建筑理论的三位一体，通过小说地图上突出出现的世界的一些积木，分析了中国·米维尔的《佩尔迪多街车站》(2001年)中世界的构建。在简要讨论了建造世界的地图和幻想地图之后，以地图为起点，展示了交通网络，特别是铁路和高架铁路是如何被赋予独特的形式的。这些构建块在小说中的一个功能是提供位置，读者可以使用这些位置在文本和地图之间动态链接，从而在空间上将位置彼此联系起来，并为它们添加层含义，将它们从空间变成地方。文本中的段落被用来展示如何在地图和文本之间移动，以及这种移动如何不仅增加了世界的空间性，而且还提供了一种通过并列不同人物的视角来讨论城市的社会和经济问题的方式。
In this essay, the author argues that analysing a fantasy novel that comes with a map without taking into account the dynamic between map and text would be to omit a vital part of the fictional world. By drawing on the Vitruvian triad of architectural theory, the construction of the world in China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station (2001) is analysed through some building-blocks of that world that emerge prominently on the novel’s map. After a brief discussion of world-building and fantasy maps, the map is taken as a starting point in order to demonstrate how the transport network in general and railways and skyrail in particular are given distinctive form. One function that these building-blocks have in the novel is to provide locations which the reader can use to link dynamically between text and map, thus relating locations to each other spatially and adding layers of meaning to them, turning them from spaces into places. Passages in the text are used to show how it is possible to move between map and text, and how such movement not only augments the spatiality of the world but that it also provides a way to discuss the city’s social and economic issues by juxtaposing different characters’ perspectives.