{"id":168,"date":"2017-02-22T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:29:13","slug":"response-ekphrasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/response-ekphrasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Response&#8211;ekphrasis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was also very interested in the rhetorical role that the tapestries play, especially in relation this portion of the canto&#8217;s narration. Though we&#8217;re seeing this scene through\u00a0Britomart\u2019s perspective as Emily notes, I think that the Spenser strong allusion (he&#8217;s not trying to hide his reference) to his source of Leda and the Swan complicates the poem&#8217;s ideas about authorship and narration. I wonder if the reference to the rape scene of Leda\u00a0and the Swan story also shows the forceful power of narration and why this story is invading Spenser&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was also very interested in the rhetorical role that the tapestries play, especially in relation this portion of the canto&#8217;s narration. Though we&#8217;re seeing this scene through\u00a0Britomart\u2019s perspective as Emily notes, I think that the Spenser strong allusion (he&#8217;s not trying to hide his reference) to his source of Leda and the Swan complicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}