This chapter shifts to the illustration of Ruskinesque romantic ruins or “lost” landscapes away from the recognizable popular culture references to famous works. The theoretical framework will apply Gaston Bachelard’s concept of eulogized space and poetics of space, which is space “imbued with human value, space that has been seized upon by the imagination,” space that is past and dead, but held with fondness and nostalgia. Going beyond understanding these spaces as mere simulacra, this chapter will argue that present ruins, “lost” natural spaces (such as sea, woods, mountains, open landscapes), and battlegrounds all play a narrative role in the comics they appear in and are carriers of ideological stances. These are not canonic spaces, such as “Camelot,” but are assumed to be authoritative representations of nature and “real” built spaces, as seen in comics such as Brian Wood’s Northlanders and Black Road series. I will argue that these spaces are imagined in situ as ruins or in decay, as eulogized space, by examining poetics, considering the narrative and the role of atmosphere, affect, mood, and color. This chapter established the fundamental theoretical framework of space and historicized space in comics, and introduces “present ruins,” which will be complemented by “future ruins” in the chapter Projected Archeology. This chapter finishes up describing the range of natural depictions for space in comics, which becomes the foundation for exploring unnatural space in comics.

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Eulogized Space

  • Elizabeth Allyn Woock

摘要

This chapter shifts to the illustration of Ruskinesque romantic ruins or “lost” landscapes away from the recognizable popular culture references to famous works. The theoretical framework will apply Gaston Bachelard’s concept of eulogized space and poetics of space, which is space “imbued with human value, space that has been seized upon by the imagination,” space that is past and dead, but held with fondness and nostalgia. Going beyond understanding these spaces as mere simulacra, this chapter will argue that present ruins, “lost” natural spaces (such as sea, woods, mountains, open landscapes), and battlegrounds all play a narrative role in the comics they appear in and are carriers of ideological stances. These are not canonic spaces, such as “Camelot,” but are assumed to be authoritative representations of nature and “real” built spaces, as seen in comics such as Brian Wood’s Northlanders and Black Road series. I will argue that these spaces are imagined in situ as ruins or in decay, as eulogized space, by examining poetics, considering the narrative and the role of atmosphere, affect, mood, and color. This chapter established the fundamental theoretical framework of space and historicized space in comics, and introduces “present ruins,” which will be complemented by “future ruins” in the chapter Projected Archeology. This chapter finishes up describing the range of natural depictions for space in comics, which becomes the foundation for exploring unnatural space in comics.