{"id":152,"date":"2017-02-22T00:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=152"},"modified":"2017-02-22T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:31:45","slug":"ekphrasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/ekphrasis\/","title":{"rendered":"ekphrasis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So excited I get to use one of my favorite words, <strong>ekphrasis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Spenser does linger quite long over the tapestries of the House of Busirane. He does not just show them to us&#8211;which would be just to say that a tapestry depicted, for example, the story of Leda and the Swan. Spenser does not say, &#8220;Oh, what a lovely tapestry. The artistry in it is\u00a0just remarkable.&#8221; The tapestry, the material object, is subsumed\u00a0by the remarkable story it represents. It is overtaken or elaborated upon by the narration, from Britomart&#8217;s perspective. The tapestry is like a translation (transubstantiation??) of the Leda and the Swan story, a new language through which the viewer can actually come into contact, emotional and visceral, with the myth. Britomart is taken with the &#8220;snowy Swan,&#8221; with &#8220;his lovely trade,&#8221; &#8220;wondrous skill&#8221; and &#8220;sweet wit.&#8221; She is admiring. So, I wonder, is this RAPE SCENE, quite literally writ large here, an occasion for Britomart to assume a more womanly form and be taken with\/by the swan? Or, is Britomart empowered and inspired to take, to &#8220;invade&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So excited I get to use one of my favorite words, ekphrasis. Spenser does linger quite long over the tapestries of the House of Busirane. He does not just show them to us&#8211;which would be just to say that a tapestry depicted, for example, the story of Leda and the Swan. Spenser does not say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}